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Originally posted by Shakka You must be misunderstanding me. There was no point, I was just posting the news. I could care less who gets the Olympics and why. I find the whole interchange on the subject to be humorous. Don't forget, I'm from Atlanta--I've already been through the Olympic experience and it is highly overrated. What did you think my point was?

Well I stand corrected then. There's simply been a lot of conservative "elation" I should say about Obama's failure to secure the olympics bid in his meeting with the IOC. To be honest, it almost seems that some conservatives are happy about ANY obama failure even if it puts ideology over country. It pissed me off whenever liberals did this with bush as well. However, I just wanted to clarify the point you were making.

/although you don't think the olympics were good for Atlanta?

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Originally posted by occrider /although you don't think the olympics were good for Atlanta?

Eh, they were a mixed blessing I guess. You get the whole world scrutinizing you for months, you get a massive increase in traffic all day long in a city that notoriously already has horrible traffic (a lot of friends just up and left the city for a month to get away from it). And you get things like bomb threats and overly heightened security in case a guy like Richard Jewel does or does not set off a bomb in Centennial Olympic Park.

Positively it brought a lot of attention to the city, I got to attend some events, tourism increased, I met some cool people at the golf course I was working at at the time, etc.

Overall though, I think it was mostly about the hype.

I'm glad Rio got it.

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Originally posted by Comrade Stalin Why would the Olympic committee choose a corrupt gang infested city with shitty infrastructure?

Took me a while to guess what city you were talking about

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Atlanta Olympics put Atlanta on the world map. Since then, the population of Atlanta has exploded. Fair trade for 2 weeks of inconvenience don't you think?

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Originally posted by Scottaculous Atlanta Olympics put Atlanta on the world map. Since then, the population of Atlanta has exploded. Fair trade for 2 weeks of inconvenience don't you think?

So says you. Atlanta had the busiest airport in the world long before the Olympics came around. Metro Atlanta's population has been growing at a rapid clip for decades. Freaknik put Atlanta on the map before the Olympics did. The only lasting remains we got from the Olympics is a baseball stadium (which is very nice) and a park with a bunch of personalized bricks. I don't think the Olympics did that much for us.