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

Really?!?! Sounds great I hear the weather is great down there!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/All-Smoothie-Recipes/415278688519154

Detroit!

southside runner wrote:

and religious weetards and obese racists.

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

Tulsa is actually probably the most liberal and diverse county in Oklahoma.

Given the whole "only major international cities get it" thing nowadays, surely the only places with any hope in hell are LA, New York, Chicago and maybe Miami or Washington DC?

money speaks wrote:

Tulsa is actually probably the most liberal and diverse county in Oklahoma.

Isn't that like being the fastest racewalker?

southside runner wrote:

and religious weetards and obese racists.

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

And yet Salt Lake City, a 75% white home of a cult based around illiteracy, hosted a (winter) Olympics.

Tulsa Oklahoma is one of the WETTEST cities in America and the World. It rains constantly. All year long.

Theres no way that anywhere in oklahoma, especially not tulsa, could host an olympiad of any type. They just get too much darn rain. Rain Rain Rain all the time in Oklahoma. Every single day. We're talking close to 50 inches per year. Thats nearly 6 feet.

How about a city that gets under 20 inches of rain per year? Many in Texas dont even get 10 inches. Those places would be a much beter choice.

Multiple "That's what she said" opportunities to this post.

Flagpole wrote:

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

Maybe Detroit would give the world the right impression.

There are only a handful of serious candidates out of the 35 anyway. It would take billions to get the Olympics and it would be hard for almost any US city to come up with the funds in the current environment.

I'd say maybe San Jose/SF, LA, Denver, Chicago, or NY could swing it. Maybe Dallas or Houston, but it's not likely that they could get any of the necessary public money. The rest are not serious possibilities and no one thinks they are.

Pros of bidding for the Olympics if you are Stovepipe Wells, CA

1. Ample open space to build new facilites. Relatively low land acquisition costs.

2. Pool already exists (just remove the greenish tint to the water)

3. Summer weather

4. Fabulous scenery

Cons of bidding:

1. No airport within 2.5 hours

2. Almost everything would need to be built from scratch

3. It might be a tad too warm for some people

SP Wells, if I recall, is actually in DV National Park, proper. That could be another problem, too?

Go pokes!

Actually, I got a letter too. I am looking to put together a bid. By 2024, I hope to have won at least two lotteries.

Let's be realistic wrote:

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/sports/olympics/olympic-board-asks-35-us-cities-about-bidding-for-2024-games.html?_r=0

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.

The lame thing is that Reno/Tahoe and Denver were actually getting serious about a 2022 winter bid when the USOC gave the all stop because they want to focus on a 2024 or 2026 games.