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Originally Posted by Brave Ulysses Unfortunately the IOC's recent selections of host cities has been terrible and the pattern looks to continue well into the future. The winter olympics have become especially poor as far as selection goes. Vancouver, while a decent games, was a poor selection of a host city for the winter olympics and Sochi will prove to be even worse. The winter olympics belong in a winter environment and preferably one in which everything is compact and accessible. The pattern of awarding a warm climate city the winter olympics and hosting the events 90-120 miles away in the mountains is ridiculous. Despite the critics, NYC2012 was a great concept. As with most things related to NYC, politics got in the way. I don't like how so much money and resources was poured into developing that bid only to be dropped when met with defeat upon the first try. NYC would be a fantastic place for the summer olympics. As would the bay area. America would be wise to embrace its natural resources and bid again for the winter games though. We really are very fortunate to have amazing world class winter sports regions here that are accessible, populated, and have infrastructure. Tahoe, SLC (again), Colorado, Wyoming, etc all would make great winter games bids. The games returning to Tahoe would be especially nice, but challenging with all the environmentalists.

Those of us that actually work and live in the NYC area have NO desire to see the games land here.