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Originally Posted by Luca
Dear IOC and FIFA,
We know you're being really progressive and all. The 2010 World Cup is in Johannesburg, the 2014 World Cup is in Rio, and the 2016 Olympics are also in Rio.
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You might as well add South Africa 2020 to the list, unless something goes horribly wrong this year. The IOC has so clearly telegraphed their desires to award the games to an African nation that it's discouraged everyone else (both Tokyo and the USOC) from bidding. (Except Italy, who's convinced that since it will have been a whopping eight years since the previous European Summer Games, they will somehow be owed the games, hence my prior post).
By my count, North America will have a decent shot at hosting the Summer Games for the first time this millenium in, oh, 2032. Every other continent would have hosted the Summer Games in the meantime, including Asia twice (2008, 2028) and Europe three times (2004, 2012, 2024). We might as well break and try to host the Winter Olympics *again* in the meantime.
