The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering a rule change that could attempt to bar President Donald Trump and other top U.S. officials from attending the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics over a long-running dispute involving unpaid American dues.The Associated Press reported Friday that the proposal is on...
Can we just have the IOC ban the USA? It’s not like the Olympics have ever been profitable for the host nation.
They’re hosted by cities not nations, but these games were profitable:
Living in one of the recent cities listed
Those games were NOT PROFITABLE. The IOC, etc, SAYS they were by:
Completely discounting Policing/Security Not including any venue construction costs And a whole bunch more sleeze (not) accounting (multi Billion$, for a winter, seen 10x higher for some summer bills)
Their idiotic “profitable” rhetoric is spuriously true, if you do some bullshit accounting, whereby the ticket revenues exceed the labour bill, on-site (and never mind they conned legions of “workers” into scabbing for “room+board volunteers” which was actually a cot and hotdogs in moldy leaking freight containers)
Multi billion $ hole, that we the people pay debt servicing on eternally, and our city became a haven for international money laundering after, one of the most unaffordable places in the world now…
Its the OCOGS that report profits not the IOC.
I was confused by your list until I remembered that they didn’t change the Winter Olympics to being a different year than the Summer until 1992.