Korea Declines IOC Recommendation to Share 2018 Winter Olympics with Japan
There has been funding battles going on between the national and provincials governments in Korea in regards to the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics. The IOC has now stepped in to recommend that Korea try and share the 2018 Games with Japan to reduce costs. It appears the suggestion of sharing the games with their rival Japan has gotten the attention of Korea:
The 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games chief organizer confirmed Friday “there is no possibility” events will be shared with cities outside of Korea.
“Construction for all the venues for the PyeongChang Games has begun. At this juncture, it is difficult to adopt the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) reform package,” the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (POCOG) President and CEO Cho Yang-ho said in a statement.
He said he “highly appreciates” the IOC’s initiative for the reforms because it will be very effective for the Olympic Movement down the road, but insists all events in 2018 will be staged in the counties of PyeongChang and Jeongseon, and the city of Gangneung.
The IOC Monday unanimously approved President Thomas Bach’s 40-point “Olympic Agenda 2020” reform package, which includes recommendations allowing cities to stage some events in different countries to cut costs.
The IOC is worried that a new sliding venue under construction in Gangwon Province may have little use after the Games and wants the POCOG to move sliding events to countries that already have venues, such as Japan. But, local governments and interested parties have insisted they have no intention of splitting the host role with other countries. [Korea Times]
So the bottom line is that all the venues that will have no use after the Olympics will be built.
Why would there be no use for those venues after the games? They will be used to train Korean winter athletes who at this time, have to go to other countries to train for their games because they have facilities.
correction ‘because they have no facilities’.
Good, build those venues, build them all and throw in another Gran Prix track! I’m loving it!
“Good, build those venues, build them all and throw in another Gran Prix track! I’m loving it!”
Good, build those venues, build them all and throw in another slew of ANMA’s/whorehouses/N.Korean interruptions/homemade plastic/wooden mountains for the downhill racers! I’m loving it!
There, I fixed it for you.
S. Korea will drown(by ships?) in it’s own hate and stupidity. Doesn’t the world know that S. Korea/Koreans are the ultimate beings on earth? They’re superhuman like that includes all 5 super piercing human senses, some dark, some lighter with the help of white creams. So don’t you dare question them or suggest anything else because Koreans know it all and don’t need any help frome the outside world. Hehehehehe!!!!!
The only people who seem to make money from the Olympics are construction firms and perhaps some vendors. The local government, and therefore taxpayer, take it in the ass.
That’s not to say the Olympics can’t serve as an investment and bolster national prestige, they just often don’t. But it’s not always about he bottom line. The ideal of the Olympics is commendable even if in practice it often falls short of that ideal.
http://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/abandoned-olympic-venues-you-can-still-visit-these-forgotten-sites-in-decay-thrillist-nation