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The race to organize the XXIV Olympic Winter Games is becoming a race to deletion. Over the past 11 months four city & agrave; withdrew his candidacy, while two could not even throw it. At this point & egrave; an inevitable reflection on the structure of an event more and more & ugrave; costly, challenging the dogma of a entrust un''unica resort & agrave ;.
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With the exception of the withdrawal dell''Ucraina for obvious reasons of geo-political, you have to see how the 'event has been "rejected" by the leading nations in the field of winter sports such as Germany, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden to which is added the Poland, where the ski jumping & egrave; national sport along with volleyball.
Applications of Monaco of Bavaria and St. Moritz / Davos are not even games due dell''opposizione popular reason also the lump sum of Krakow, while Oslo and Stockholm were forfeited because without government support.
Now & egrave; clear how the Olympic Games, cos & igrave; conceived, are a drain on economic deficit that produces and / or waste of any kind. To realize & egrave; enough to go and see the state of the facilities built for the Athens 2004 and Turin 2006 In the "best" case scenario had a short life and troubled, at worst are finished quickly into disrepair.
The concept to the extreme you can & ograve; state as the Olympic Games appeal to everyone, but nobody wants to organize them. On the 'other hand & egrave; evident in recent years the trend of reduction of the candidates is established. Until a decade ago the IOC PERFORMED preliminary selections to skim 5 & agrave the city; to choose from, but today come to play for the 'event less resort & agrave ;. Think all''edizione summer 2020 with the sole Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul in race or, in fact, that the 2022 will & agrave; assigned or to Almaty or in Beijing.
At this point the question arises: & egrave; its mandatory dispute the Olympic Games in un''unica city & agrave ;? This conception of the event the & egrave; nineteenth century and now overtaken by events. The event has assumed infinitely greater than those imagined in the nineteenth century.
If you do not want the Olympics to die, why & eacute; Countries are increasingly less willing to organize them, it would be appropriate to consider the 'possibility of questioning the dogma of them over to a single city & agrave; and one nation.
Imagine this scenario, all ipotetico.SCI ALPINE: St. Moritz (Switzerland) NORDIC SKIING: Falun (Sweden) Biathlon: Oslo (Norway) SNOWBOARD / FREESTYLE: Copper Mountain (United States) SKATING: Nice (France) SLEDGE / BOB / SKELETON: Winterberg (Germany) HOCKEY: Helsinki (Finland) CURLING: Quebec City (Canada) Avvremmo 8 resort & agrave; to organize what, in terms of expenses, would be the 'equivalent of a World Cup. The difference with respect to the events championship would be represented by the fact that the eight events would argue simultaneously with the brand "Olympic Games" and with the same sets for all eight braziers burned in three different continents.
Sure would be less "the 'event' in s & egrave; in the city & agrave; appointed to organize it, but in reality & agrave; the 'event would take different contours Since é instead of ;, & eacute; have all the spotlight on one stage, would be distributed in eight different theaters where it reads the same work at the same time.
From the point of view of the media would not be a problem to set up video-conferenzestampa virtual & nbsp; via the Internet. The 'experiment & egrave; gi & agrave; been carried out successfully in the courts when in Canada are held simultaneously tournaments in Toronto and Montreal with women in a city & agrave; and men nell''altra. The benefits would also be enormous.
1) The cost of each nation and the upheaval it would give a chance & agrave; to have the Olympic Games who, though interested, & egrave; forced to forfeit because he was unable to bear the expenses of the event conceived as & egrave; time (only for 2022 think of Finland, Bosnia and Romania). The countries are candiderebbero just for the sport package in which they are interested. Without hypocrisy, it would also be the best way to bring the Five Rings in Italy in the short term because our public finances leave no room all''ottimismo. Incidentally, the "costs" should be even all the security issues.
2) It would reduce the danger of making "white elephants" of the equipment used for 'event because it could take advantage of structures already & agrave; by modernizing existing and however you gareggerebbe in pi & ugrave; Countries with tradition in this area.
3) The audience at home (no need to hide behind a finger, are the television rights to keep alive the Olympic Games) would live quite the same way Since & eacute; the sets would be similar. Indeed, why could live better & eacute; assigning the 'event in different continents there would be a chance & agrave; to play with the time zones for optimum age 'listening. 4) It is also open the door of the event the all''emisfero Southern, at least as regards ice sports.
5) This would allow decentralization of the Games, when it comes to summer ones, to multiply the sport and avoid painful cuts in order not to have a number of athletes unsustainable in a single city & agrave ;.
The modern Olympic Games were conceived pi & ugrave; 120 years ago, and over time have changed along with the world until it became what we all know now.
In the light of what we are seeing in recent times the IOC would do well to open a discussion about the structure of mono-and mono-citizen national of an event so beloved by the sporting point of view as in evident from the standpoint of economic crisis and carry out a study feasibility & agrave; on decentralization.
In the long run nature not survive the pi & ugrave; strong, survives the pi & ugrave; suitable. So either you evolve or you die. If the collapse of applications & egrave; the signal of the risk of death of the Olympic Games, then to survive the 'event could be essential to' evolution of the same.
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