Tulsa, OK showing interest in hosting 2024 Summer Olympics (Dallas, too). Thoughts?

Perfect weather in August down there. Great choices.

That was my first thought. In 2024, it'll likely be hotter, too.

I think they wanted to bid on 2020 before the USOC decided not to submit any formal bid. As someone born and raised in Tulsa (but having not lived there in well over 10 years now), I can't see how it would be a good idea to have the summer games in a place that routinely hits the 100s in late July/early August and, if lucky, cools to the mid 70s at night. Also, no future use for an Olympic stadium, should they somehow be selected (TU football games, played in a 40k seat stadium, never sells out), and the entire pipe-dream before was predicated on creating a series of man-made islands in the middle of the Arkansas river for the Olympic village and a number of other venues, which would be converted post-Olympics to mixed use blablabla...total pipe dream stuff, and the moment that building anything required for an Olympics goes to tax-payer vote, it will be killed. You could promise everyone in Tulsa $100k in cash for a $10 investment and there would be a well organized, loud and poorly informed campaign against it.

But Sochi is somehow happening, so who knows...

They got a letter asking them to consider bidding. I didn't see anything indicating Tulsa had interest in bidding.

Anyway, totally not happening. Too small is only the first problem. Many, many others with that bid.

I also thought Tulsa is too small.

"Los Angeles, Dallas and Tulsa, Okla., are among the cities that have expressed interest in hosting the 2024 Games." Of course, that doesn't mean they really will make a bid.

From:

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/50857780/ns/sports-olympic_sports/

Mr. Obvious wrote:

They got a letter asking them to consider bidding. I didn't see anything indicating Tulsa had interest in bidding.

They formed an exploratory committee in 2009 that put together a preliminary bid for 2020 that was, apparently, at least interesting enough for the IOC to ask the USOC to revisit. The whole thing would be about Native American's and first peoples from around the world and would actually be hosted all over the state of Oklahoma, based off the Atlanta model.

But yeah, there are more reasons to doubt it has any sort of realistic shot than there are reasons it would work.

my hometown of EL PASO is perfect place to hold summer olympic games. very very rich in culture and pride and history and extremely friendly and safe and technologically advanced and economically progressive.

anywhere in oklahoma sucks

USOC sent letters to 35 cities.

Phoenix; San Jose, Calif.; Los Angeles; Sacramento; San Diego; San Francisco; Denver; Washington; Jacksonville, Fla.; Orlando, Fla.; Miami; Atlanta; Chicago; Indianapolis; Baltimore; Detroit; Minneapolis; St. Louis; Las Vegas; New York; Boston; Rochester; Charlotte, N.C.; Columbus, Ohio; Tulsa, Okla.; Portland, Ore.; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Memphis; Nashville and Davidson County; Austin, Tex.; Dallas; Houston; San Antonio; and Seattle.

The great majority of the cities getting letters - including Tulsa - couldn't and won't make serious bids. Getting a letter from USOC doesn't mean anything.

There are much better locales in the US for the Olympic Games.

A lot of oil and gas money in Oklahoma...

money speaks wrote:

A lot of oil and gas money in Oklahoma...

and religious weetards and obese racists.

oklahoma is a very poor representation of america as a whole.

absolute best palces for summer olympics......

yuma arizona

laughlin nevada

stove pipe wells california

lake havasu city arizona

parker arizona

needles california

el centro california

nogales arizona

PINE RIDGE SOUTH DAKOTA

lol at Stovepipe Wells! Nice little town.

Everyone knows the front runner is Rochester.

Brownsville Texas or Camden New Jersey

that's great. how much does it take to build an airport with twin 2 mile long runways, a subway system, venues for 16 or so sports, a teleport and satellite port, 100 five star hotels, a convention center, etc.? 20 Billion Dollars? Which city has that kind of money?

I believe (and hope) all of the grandiose crap that accompanies an olympics won't be required by 2024, and just having really good athletic competition will be the point.

That said, Minneapolis wouldn't be a bad idea. They have stadiums already that could be retrofit and a good airport nearby. The weather in August is pretty good. The marathon course would be pretty awesome too.

I agree. The Olympics should be more like the Superbowl where it's all about the actual competition.

Tulsa, OK is so crazily conservative. The world would get a very wrong impression of the whole of the US if they get it, so I hope they don't.