Comments by "redfish337" (@redfish337) on "Why Hosting The Olympics Isn't Worth It Anymore" video.

  1. They could have kept the stadium if they were trying to keep to a strict budget. They just took the opportunity to replace it. Which is fine... all central Tokyo venues have no problem being well-used considering Japanese love for sports and music. Perhaps more importantly... they "kicked" the Americans out of the western Yamanote region to use as the Olympic Village. And then built Yoyogi Park on top of it after the games finished. So they have to make a new Olympics Village over near the harbor district. So what would have happened if they had maintained the space? It's the large green space between Harajuku and Shibuya... It's hard to say if things (in a pop culture sense) would have developed the way it has without that park being there preventing heavy development on top of Harajuku. The point is...Japan traded military housing for a park- trying to maintain some of the less important infrastructure would have been a detriment moving forward.
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  2. Stop bidding. The IOC is taking too much money. Stop bidding so it is forced to negotiate.
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