tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594722532540683646.post4208469041001147809..comments2024-01-06T23:25:09.200-03:00Comments on Hunting White Elephants / Caçando Elefantes Brancos: Rio 2016, Six Months After Christopher Gaffneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04857921977919114588noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594722532540683646.post-76473820444450250922017-02-24T13:01:23.655-03:002017-02-24T13:01:23.655-03:00Thanks for the comments. Unfortunately, wasting mo...Thanks for the comments. Unfortunately, wasting money is part of the plan. Until the business model is rejected as a complete failure, there will always be incremental tweaks to the system to keep it going. If FIFA and the IOC were to pay for the infrastructure needs of their events and guarantee their maintenance and "sustainability" for a decade after, then they would have less money, their events would be more integrated with the urban and social fabrics, and we might start caring about these events again. Until then, TV off, national team shirts into the dustbin of history, and radical engagement with local politics. Christopher Gaffneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04857921977919114588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594722532540683646.post-69820597437791500282017-02-24T11:36:20.831-03:002017-02-24T11:36:20.831-03:00How about 25-50 year contracts (based on a lottery...How about 25-50 year contracts (based on a lottery of willing participants) to host one set of events e.g. Greece host the Olympics for the next fifty years (or ten Olympics). That way we might have some of the positive externalities of the events, without colossal wastes of money. Are there any such ridiculous proposals out there? RG Michenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10322968387061769375noreply@blogger.com