Rome 2024 Olympic bid collapses in acrimony

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Rome 2024 Olympic bid collapses in acrimony

21 September 2016 Europe

Rome is set to drop its bid to host the Olympic Games in 2024, after its anti-establishment mayor said it would be "irresponsible" to be a candidate.

Virginia Raggi of the Five Star movement was elected in June.

Her decision was a blow for the city's Olympic committee which had hoped to change her mind. But officials said she had failed to turn up to a meeting.

Rome last hosted the Games in 1960 and also pulled out of the bidding for the 2020 Olympics for financial reasons.

Boston and Hamburg have already dropped out of the running for the 2024 Games. Germany has not hosted a games since 1972, and Hamburg's decision to pull out was made in a referendum.

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[get the red out]

1. Documentary

I watched a documentary (on a sports channel, of all places) about how hosting the Olympics can really hurt the host city financially, and doesn't really help the residents much, and in totalitarian countries can result in people's homes being taken and them imprisoned if they object (that happened in China).

[niyad]

3. the economic, environmental and social impacts of hosting the olympics needs to be more widely

known.

[niyad]

2. wouldn't break my heart to see the end of the olympics, since the entire structure is

corrupt (mitt romney, 2012, anyone??)

[get the red out]

4. I feel the same way

I think they cause more harm than good.

[monmouth4]

5. Me too..n/t