New Olympic Idea
Saturday, January 01, 2000
The Olympic Games have grown into an organisational juggernaut that only large, rich, hi-tech cities can hope to accommodate, and only so many people can attend. More modest cities and lower-income sports-fans are squeezed out. It’s time for a change of approach: and there is a solution.
Future Olympics should be held all over the globe – in sequence. For example, Melbourne could take the swimming, Beijing the athletics, Athens the opening ceremony, Ireland the equestrian, etc… Greater access and more international participation.
Philip O'Carroll