When will India host the Olympics?

[Shankranthi]

Where in my post did I say that?

Maybe not, just my experience with chinese trolls.

 

[saurav jha]

In Akhand Bharath

epic

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Well.... I don't have other meaning, I just say my opinion... In the recent 20 years, India is not likely to host the Olympic Games success.

(Rio is the worst Olympic Games in the history of the Olympic Games, because of inadequate preparation)

 

[Abba_Dabba_Jabba]

If you have extra 1 $ billion in your pocket and you are a freak, then host Olympics and get bankrupt. I never support this pro-western hegemony in south asian region.

 

[nair]

Not in 3 decade or so....... It is waste of money considering the current status////////

 

[Abba_Dabba_Jabba]

Well.... I don't have other meaning, I just say my opinion... In the recent 20 years, India is not likely to host the Olympic Games success.

(Rio is the worst Olympic Games in the history of the Olympic Games, because of inadequate preparation)

99% of Indian will agree with you, Beijing 2008 was definitely the best ever Olympics, the opening ceremony was the best I have ever saw in my life.

 

[Archie]

Olympics is a waste of money

Atleast till their are hundreds of millions who need to be lifted out of poverty

I expect India will host the Olympics sometime in future , in my lifetime
But it is atleast 30 years away

 

[endyashainin]

Still, nobody has answered my question. I'm post it for the third time:

It wasn't very long ago that almost every Indian person I came across online wanted India to host the Olympics. There were many articles written in the Indian press on this topic. The consensus was that India should host the Olympics by 2020 or 2024 at the latest.

Why the sudden reversal of public opinion on this matter? What happened?

 

[nair]

Still, nobody has answered my question. I'm post it for the third time:

It wasn't very long ago that almost every Indian person I came across online wanted India to host the Olympics. There were many articles written in the Indian press on this topic. The consensus was that India should host the Olympics by 2020 or 2024 at the latest.

Why the sudden reversal of public opinion on this matter? What happened?

May be we realise it is not worth it..... Or we have bigger issue to address before spending money on something like Olympics..... May be we have learnt our lessons after commonwealth games....

 

[SBUS-CXK]

99% of Indian will agree with you, Beijing 2008 was definitely the best ever Olympics, the opening ceremony was the best I have ever saw in my life.

The Beijing Olympic Games was proved to be successful... Although as a Chinese, I say this was suspected of showing off.
I'm not saying that India's recent 20 years there will not be hosting the Olympics.
I just hope that India will hold a successful Olympic Games.
Not like Rio.
（Hope before I reply Do not be misunderstood）

 

[faithfulguy]

I wonder if India will be a superpower first or host an Olympic game first. I think most Indians would prefer the superpower status over host a game, which drains money.

 

[punit]

I wonder if India will be a superpower first or host an Olympic game first. I think most Indians would prefer the superpower status over host a game, which drains money.

WE want neither .. we just want to to well enough to take care of our issues both external and internal.

Now that Brazil has hosted the Olympics, India is the only country in the BRIC group that has not yet hosted the games. Question for our Indian members here: when do you think India will host the Olympics?




Rio 2016 Olympics: Brazil gives India gameplan on how to win the bid

Sidney Levy, the Rio Games CEO invoked the most non sports of shortcomings when trying to prop flagging self confidence of Brazilians against the onslaught of global criticism over them delivering the Olympics. “Brazilians have a low perception of themselves and their ability to deliver,” he began, before drifting, “like we’ve never won a Nobel Prize.. how to build character of a nation is very complicated.”

This was a strange lament for a sassy country made to feel not good enough on the eve of a sporting event, the Games. Levy though would wrap up his media interaction with a blunt prophecy: “Today every organiser wants to create Games that are same or even better than the last one. Don’t. We can’t keep asking for more and more.”

After Beijing’s extravagance, a course correction was in order and it’s taken a frugal London and a slumping Brazil for sports administrators to realise future games cannot keep pegging the budgets higher and higher up. That Rio is on the brink of hosting South America’s first Olympics should give India hope. Michael Payne, a former IOC director of 20 years who also was a key advisor for the Brazilian bid, reckons India should not stop dreaming — never mind the Commonwealth Games scar.

One example India can stop scratching at that 2010 scab is USA. “Remember Atlanta 96 were not great. Here was America slipping up! But they still won the Winter Games and are strong contenders for 2024,” he says. Atlanta failed on various counts of technology, transport and security, and Brazil went through 4 failed bids — since 1936 actually — before they eventually cracked the code.

Payne reckons there’s a right time for every country — Beijing’s wasn’t sooner than 2008. And IOC’s fundamental aim to take Olympics to new parts of the world — Beijing, Rio were as political as technical choices — means India’s time is imminent.

It might not be anytime soon though — given the next two Winter Games are in Korea and China and 2020 is Tokyo, a safe choice given Japanese efficiency. But the lull might be a right time to start planning.

Dress rehearsal

Rio of course was dress rehearsed with a successful Pan Am Games and India will need to go through stress testing it’s preparedness with perhaps an Asiad. But Payne believes there’s excitement in IOC circles about a different Indian venue.

“Your tech city Hyderabad had started murmurs a few years back. And that might be the way to go,” he believes. He sees a contradiction in the CWG situation. “How was it that a country that is the world’s outsourcing capital known for business and innovation did not think of outsourcing the CWG to a competent professional management group?” he asks.

Payne explains big events operate on timelines that governments aren’t equipped to deliver on. “China does it, but in most other places it is a cultural challenge. Timelines are non negotiable. Whether you are ready or not at 8 pm this Friday the Games will start. That needs more than government-bureaucracy, something that the CWG relied solely on. I think if India gets open and honest about shortcomings of CWG and can present a case of why they can be different next time, they are in with a good chance few years from now.”

As a bid expert for years Payne has watched the power of social media to bite into host countries and magnify problems exponentially. “In Rio some criticism is justified: not cleaning Guanamara bay was bad. And government didn’t follow through on that promise. Also transportation was left to the last second.” But he reckons the Rio stage is unique and one ought to wait for beach volleyball to start for these Games to start dazzling the world off its feet and forget about the woes.

India he believes offers its own uniqueness. “The culture, heritage, hospitality it’s a very clear identity. India’s a great story to tell. The branding doesn’t worry me, the nuts and bolts does,” he adds.

If Rio has, then Hyderabad (or Delhi) can.

not any time soon.

 

[Jlaw]

Maybe not, just my experience with chinese trolls.

Indians are insecure so they troll Chinese here

 

[Abba_Dabba_Jabba]

The Beijing Olympic Games was proved to be successful... Although as a Chinese, I say this was suspected of showing off.
I'm not saying that India's recent 20 years there will not be hosting the Olympics.
I just hope that India will hold a successful Olympic Games.
Not like Rio.
（Hope before I reply Do not be misunderstood）

I understood, my previous post was not sarcastic. We admire what beijing did in 2008, but India lacks in that front, we did organized 2010 CWG games, the games were perfect but the cost of organizing it was too high and plus there was huge corruption reported. Still we have lots of problem to solve, let the western & developed nations take the honour of organizing it, we will take at least 20 more years to become eligible for that.

 

[endyashainin]

I wonder if India will be a superpower first or host an Olympic game first. I think most Indians would prefer the superpower status over host a game, which drains money.

India will be a superpower first before hosting the games because the 2020 games have already been awarded to Tokyo.