After spending time in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, I am curious to see how Brazil will handle the Olympics. Houston appears much better equipped than Brazil. At least they will have practice with the 2014 World Cup.
I understand that, but the airports in Rio and Sao Paulo are nothing special and the infrastructure involved in getting from place to place isn't anything special either. The World Cup will help expose any of those weaknesses prior to the Olympics.
The United Texas bid would work. There's no reason to build new stadiums for the Olympics- that's just a colossal waste of money.
Could, but would need a lot of things to change, including public transportation. I doubt it'll happen anytime soon though.
I'm not familiar with a huge number of major cities mind you, but Houston's traffic, construction, and freeway system strike me as downright bad. Logistically, I think it would be really annoying for visitors. Plus Houston doesn't have much of anything by way of glamorous history.
Airports in Brasil are built on public funds. Thus the lack of investment. They've very recently changed course in anticipation of the WC/Olympics and allowed private investment to expand airport infrastructure. We are behind the eight ball in getting things ready to go but that's how business gets done in Brasil. Always last minute. Everything gets green lighted in a rush to meet the due dates and the corrupt officials get a chance to grab their cut in the rush to finish said projects.
sadly, no. The lack and complete contempt of public transportation for this city (along with the underlying racism and classism) wouldn't allow for a successful and streamlined olympic games. For those talking about a "Texas bid" just stop. There's a thing called an Olympic village and it's there for a reason. Trucking athletes for 3-4 hour commutes or even flights is laughable.
Equestrian events in the Bejing olympics were held in Hong Kong over 1,000 miles away. When Atlanta held the Olympics venues were used in Alabama, Florida and Tennessee
Yeah but it was just one event that was held in HK. I would think a texas super bid would spread out the events all over the place. Why doesn't Texas, or America bid for a World Cup
Why do I get the feeling that some of the people here have never left the USA? If you have ever lived for a extended period of time in a major metropolitan outside of the US you would realize why Houston will never host a Olympics.
