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Olympic records in cost overruns

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  1. [4]
    Sodliddesu
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    One, you don't have to watch the sports you don't want to watch Two, the most awful part is hearing the announcers say "Three ex three" like they've never heard of this mystical sport. Besides,...

    Except for the awfulness of it all, I have no interest in the three-on-three Olympic basketball

    One, you don't have to watch the sports you don't want to watch

    Two, the most awful part is hearing the announcers say "Three ex three" like they've never heard of this mystical sport.

    Besides, the biggest point in this article was that Olympic bids are done a decade in advance without factoring inflation. We don't need to cut sports when we're not even doing proper accounting.

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    1. AugustusFerdinand
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      Add to it that all of these are using existing venues, not being built new for the games. Only three new permanent venues were built, the Aquatics Centre, Porte de la Chapelle Arena...

      I’m probably a bigger sports fan than your typical person, but I’d start cost control by by dropping the sports where professionals already have major global exposure in the non-Olympic events: soccer, golf, basketball, tennis.

      Add to it that all of these are using existing venues, not being built new for the games. Only three new permanent venues were built, the Aquatics Centre, Porte de la Chapelle Arena (badminton/gymnastics), and Le Bourget Sport Climbing venue.

      But if he wants to talk about cutting unnecessary (and expensive) sports, we can start with the utterly pointless horseshit.

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      burkaman
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      Apparently that's how the organizers want them to say it: https://fiba3x3.basketball/en/vision.html

      Apparently that's how the organizers want them to say it: https://fiba3x3.basketball/en/vision.html

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      1. Sodliddesu
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        Excuse the meme response but thanks, I hate it. It must be a regional thing because I've never heard anyone decide to refer to it that way. I've heard three on three and three 'vee' three but...

        Excuse the meme response but thanks, I hate it.

        It must be a regional thing because I've never heard anyone decide to refer to it that way. I've heard three on three and three 'vee' three but three ex three just sounds wrong.

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