LA28 Off to a bad start. Update: Rojo thinks it's great.

rojo wrote:

I think this is GREAT.

This is 2026. Not 1926. We have airplanes, tv etc.

The average fan isn't going to softball, track, etc.

There is no need to have it in the same spot if it's going to cost tens of millions of dollars to do so.

OP Why is it a "terrible decision?" Please explain why having it in a different location is so bad? I think a terrible decision would be to build a $50 million softball stadium that will be used once. The canoe facility also basically cost $50 million. SO if you build it in LA they probalby would cost $150 million each. Why in the world would we want to spend $300 million for one week of sports competition? Seems crazy.

The Olympics Are Coming wrote:

Clearly you don't know much about the Olympics. Even sports that are not of interest to most US citizens will get lots of spectators. People from around the world travel to the Olympics. The spectators aren't just people from the United States.

And even people from the United States go to lots of different sporting events that they normally wouldn't go to, just because it's the Olympics.

I was at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. I went to see lots of the smaller sports and they were all full of spectators.

So you are wrong when you wrote "just about all of these will be held in front of minimal supporters."

4 Minute Mi-liar wrote:

In the case of softball and the canoeing...

OKC was the only place that had a facility large enough to host the anticipated crowds.

And OKC has a whitewater competition course that was designed especially to hold certain canoe events.

In both situations... it saved LA from having to build new facilities... or in the case of softball... using an inadequate one.

bobnfloyd wrote:

4 Minute Mi-liar wrote:

In the case of softball and the canoeing...

OKC was the only place that had a facility large enough to host the anticipated crowds.

And OKC has a whitewater competition course that was designed especially to hold certain canoe events.

In both situations... it saved LA from having to build new facilities... or in the case of softball... using an inadequate one.

Last season Stanford played softball in their football stadium, and set the NCAA attendance record higher than what Devon Park holds. Plenty of options without building new facilities.

Law_5 wrote:

When the hammer was held at Nike, the stands were full. There were a couple of guys behind us who were huge hammer fans. They said this had to be the most people who had ever watched the hammer in the United States. At the '84 Olympics, they said the hammer was on a softball field out at UCLA.

4 Minute Mi-liar wrote:

In both situations... it saved LA from having to build new facilities... or in the case of softball... using an inadequate one.

weirdly i agree with rojo wrote:

rojo wrote:

I think this is GREAT.

This is 2026. Not 1926. We have airplanes, tv etc.

The average fan isn't going to softball, track, etc.

There is no need to have it in the same spot if it's going to cost tens of millions of dollars to do so.

OP Why is it a "terrible decision?" Please explain why having it in a different location is so bad? I think a terrible decision would be to build a $50 million softball stadium that will be used once. The canoe facility also basically cost $50 million. SO if you build it in LA they probalby would cost $150 million each. Why in the world would we want to spend $300 million for one week of sports competition? Seems crazy.

Why did you have to edit the title of the thread? Why do you have to make everything about yourself?

map reader wrote:

bobnfloyd wrote:

Last season Stanford played softball in their football stadium, and set the NCAA attendance record higher than what Devon Park holds. Plenty of options without building new facilities.

Stanford is also a planet flight from LA.

Even Cortina Winter Games are splitting events between Milan and Cortina, about a 3 hour drive, separate states and regions.

JamesD2 wrote:

There aren't that many places in the U.S. with multiple regulation softball fields and stands together to allow for multiple games at the same time, plus practices for the other teams. Columbus, GA built a softball complex near the city's minor league baseball stadium for the 1996 Olympics and used the renovated stadium for the most important games (sort of like center court and the side courts at tennis tournaments). The city still hosts regional and national amateur softball tournaments at the complex.

FLINT wrote:

I wanna know where break dancing is going to be. L.A.? N.Y.? Fresno?