Lack of Winter Olympic bids may lead to rotating fixed hosts

People are starting to wake up to the fact that the olympics aren't sustainable.

The games don't have bids because of corruption and greed that makes them costly and a losing proposition for most countries that could be interested, together with scandals, ethical problems, doping and how countries that are actively waging war are treated as honorable guests this is not going to improve any time soon.

Rotating fixed hosts will make them even less popular, so I would like to think is a good thing, with luck this will accelerate the fall of the IOC and its international ring of corruption.

I pity the Citizens of the nations that have to repeatedly host and pay for this corrupt circus. This is punishment no nation deserves.

@Fighto!

I pity the Citizens of the nations that have to repeatedly host and pay for this corrupt circus. This is punishment no nation deserves.

I am sure Koreans will bite the bullet if offered a permanent Olympic host city status. After all, it's only once in every 12 year event, not every 4 years. The condition being that this doesn't affect their ability to bid for Summer Olympic games.

Ditto for Salt Lake City because of the Church of Mormon's desire to promote their city at any cost. Church of Mormon is wealthy and can afford to spend a couple billion dollars every 12 years.

The question is, which European city will bite the bullet.

How can you rotate hosts if no one wants to host the event? You cannot self-invite your event to any city around the world whenever you feel like it.

The way the Olympics is currently run by the corrupt IOC officials makes it a money pit that only benefits the event organizers and the IOC. The city and the taxes payers always lose.

Then you hear later that there was a bribery scandal by the IOC and the local officials or their close allies in the private sector.

@Numan

How can you rotate hosts if no one wants to host the event?

It's not no city, obviously there are already two host cities willing to sign up to this rotating system, Salt Lak City and Pyeongchang. Heck, even Sapporo would love to sign up if it wasn't disqualified due to the Tokyo Olympics bribery scandal clouding Japanese bids.

The real challenge is finding a European host city willing to sign up. I think Australia could supply the fourth host city, assuming challenges of hosting a Winter Olympics in the summer during World Cup year can be sorted out.

I nominate Ukraine

I've always liked that the Olympics is held in different places. I like the local flavor that comes with watching and following the Games, and seeing a bit of their culture on display.

That said, having a fixed location (or a fixed rotation of locations) would be interesting because the grounds themselves would grow in status based on past achievements. For example (if this were the Summer Olympics), it would be an honor for runners to run on the same track that Usain Bolt ran on years ago, or for swimmers to try to set a world record in the exact same pool that Michael Phelps set the record in years ago. Stadiums and arenas for domestic sports develop that kind of fun historical quality, which doesn't occur for the Olympics.

The original Olympics used the same location in Olympia, Greece for more than a thousand years.

The original Olympics used the same location in Olympia, Greece for more than a thousand years.

Did they have snow?

That'd please Japan, who'd be more than happy to waste our tax money every few years to ask everyone for a clap on the back.