IOC demands: Oslo drops bid after over-the-top list of requirements. - http://www.slate.com/blogs...
Mar 25, 2015
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"Oslo is dropping out of bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics, leaving Almaty, Kazakhstan and Beijing as the only remaining cities seeking to host the event. Why?"
- Amit Patel
WTF "Separate lanes should be created on all roads where IOC members will travel, which are not to be used by regular people or public transportation."
- Amit Patel
"The IOC members should have separate entrances and exits to and from the airport."
- Amit Patel
"They demand to meet the king prior to the opening ceremony. Afterwards, there shall be a cocktail reception. Drinks shall be paid for by the Royal Palace or the local organizing committee."
- Amit Patel
IOC response: "For this reason senior politicians in Norway appear not to have been properly briefed on the process and were left to take their decisions on the basis of half-truths and factual inaccuracies."
- Amit Patel
I'm assuming that "properly briefed" in this context is "told to shut up and give over."
- Jennifer Dittrich
If the US bid on the 2022 games, how would the IOC EVER meet the King of the USA?
- Back to just Joe
I thought they'd announced this months ago?
- Jenny H.