You can only post in this thread if your country didn't host an Olympics past the Cold War that managed to be literally...

You can only post in this thread if your country didn't host an Olympics past the Cold War that managed to be literally worse than Rio.

Not so fast, America!

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My country didn't host an Olympics past the Cold War that managed to be literally worse than Rio.

I think you might want to rephrase that.

Every time I read it my brain hurts more

Oops

The only people who thought Rio was worse than Atlanta are burgers bitter at the fact it was their last summer Olympics. Wait the 8 years until LA finally holds it, does it as well as '84 and Atlanta will be consigned to the dustbin of history.

>host the games
>city makes money
>city continues to use the infrastructure
>no crippling debt
>global praise


Nice try Brazil. The Atlanta games were literally the perfect Olympiad. Perfect weather, city didn't go in debt and the games left us memories that will last a lifetime.

Try harder baitlord

>global praise

Now you're really baiting hard.

>people defending Atlanta

Olympic Cup winners in Olympic years...

1992 — City of Barcelona
1996 — City of Baden-Baden
2000 — City of Sydney
2004 — People of Athens
2008 — The citizens of Beijing
2012 — The citizens of London
2016 — People of Rio de Janeiro

I wonder which one could be the odd one out...

I'm not baiting? The way the world came together to praise Atlanta's handling of the bombing and the recovery was a think of legend.

As I mentioned, the games were tremendous. The only detractors were jealous foreigners and shit head athletes that don't like friendly people and warm weather

independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/the-best-and-the-worst-of-the-olympics-ive-seen-it-all-7964064.html

>The only Games I missed in almost five decades of Olympic reporting as I was deskbound, sports editing another Sunday newspaper. Colleagues say I was the lucky one, with the organisation a shambles, Gone With the Wind country providing the antithesis of southern hospitality, and catastrophe when a crazed loner planted a bomb that killed one woman and injured more than 100. Miserable Games that are remembered for the quivering hand of Parkinson-stricken Muhammad Ali lighting the flame, a moment so poignant it even had President Bill Clinton in tears.

>Of the 11 Olympics I have attended Tokyo was the most charming, and Sydney was simply the best, from every aspect: organisation, atmosphere, weather, facilities and above all the touchy-feely friendliness of the Aussies themselves.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics

>A report prepared by European Olympic officials after the Games was critical of Atlanta's performance in several key issues, including the level of crowding in the Olympic Village, the quality of available food, the accessibility and convenience of transportation, and the Games' general atmosphere of commercialism.[17] At the closing ceremony, IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch said in his closing speech, "Well done, Atlanta" and simply called the Games "most exceptional." This broke precedent for Samaranch, who had traditionally labeled each Games "the best Olympics ever" at each closing ceremony, a practice he resumed at the subsequent Games in Sydney in 2000.[18]

Funny how it didn't win the same award every other Olympic city (including Rio) won in 24 years then. Legends aren't always a good thing, son.

Atlanta was the GOAT olympics though and Rio was the worst. You literally robbed an athlete then crucified him in the press.

Atlanta was the worst olympics in my memory

clatl.com/news/article/13063818/atlanta-olympics-were-an-unmitigated-transport-disaster

>

You were too far ahead of your time, Izzy

Wikipedia
You were too far ahead of your time, Izzy

Atlanta's been criticized for over-commercializing the 1996 Summer Olympics. Now we're being reminded that our transportation network during the games was a mess. The Associated Press reports on the efforts of Olympics organizers and transportation officials in London, where next year's games will be held:

>No one wants another Atlanta. The 1996 Games provided a cautionary tale of Olympic travel woes — with bus drivers getting lost, athletes arriving moments before their events and overloaded trains that couldn’t get residents home. It prompted the International Olympic Committee to lay out demands to make sure it didn’t happen again.

“Atlanta was an unmitigated transport disaster,” rail expert Christian Wolmar said. “All the other Olympics — Beijing and Sydney — have learned their lessons.”

This is odd, I thought states and provinces' flags shouldn't show up if you're not using the extra flags plugin?

>Brazilian education

kek based samaranch

>no crippling debt

Except...

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-06-24/london-olympics-to-be-most-over-budget-games-since-atlanta-1996

>The sports-related expense of hosting in the British capital is likely to cost more than twice the original estimate, researchers from the university’s Said Business School said in a paper. That’s the most since the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, when costs overran by 147 percent.

>Chinese Taipei

>American expat detected

>>Taiwan
>>Not mainland China

Wheres your friend Tibet ?

Bullshit. The Euro IOC was just pissed that Atlanta hired street vendors to sell shit they could make more money off of that wasn't "Olympic sponsored".

>In addition, the city of Atlanta was found to have been competing with the IOC for advertising and sponsorship dollars. The city licensed street vendors who sold certain products over others, and therefore provided a presence for companies who were not official Olympic sponsors


way to edit out a key part. They were pissed cause Atlanta took "their" money nothing else

I see, that created the numerous transport and logistical issues mentioned in most articles about the Olympics. Or maybe the local government being greedy cunts was just another facet of how they fucked up the event.

Nah, I'm sure it's just bitter foreigners hating on USA USA USA.

>Nah, I'm sure it's just bitter foreigners hating on USA USA USA.
Ding ding ding.

Give the butthurt foreigner a prize.

this is the memory of the atlanta games everybody has, a complete shitfest nobody could wait to forget and move on

1980 — Ginásio Clube Portugues
Wtf?

>local government being greedy cunts

Yes, fucking Europeans and Ausfags would rather see a country's economy go under than the city make money off the most corrupt organization in sports. Fuck scum. Late buses are worse than people getting robbed, green water and shit turn out at every event.

What about Salt Lake City

>after the Cold War

There's literally no chance you're Sino Taipeinese and not American.
>running off to a proxy after you realize your shithole had a worse olympics than a 3rd world shithole and the whole civilized world unanimously agrees

>2002
>not after the Cold War

>winter memelympics