Matt-radamus

With all the talk of tourism industry expansion and hotel growth, I now submit my Olympic prediction which I formulated a few months back. Witness the history:

2012 – NYC
2008 – Beijing
2004 – Athens
2000 – Sydney
1996 – Atlanta
1992 – Barcelona
1988 – Seoul
1984 – Los Angeles
1980 – Moscow
1976 – Montreal		 1972 – Munich
1968 – Mexico
1964 – Tokyo
1960 – Rome
1956 – Melbourne
1952 – Helsinki
1948 – London
1936 – Berlin
1932 – Los Angeles		 1928 – Amsterdam
1924 – Paris
1920 – Antwerp
1912 – Stockholm
1908 – London
1906 – Athens (”Unofficial”)
1904 – St. Louis
1900 – Paris
1896 – Athens

As we approach half a century since the last Olympics in Tokyo, I predict that Tokyo will again — or at least a major metropolitan area in Japan — bid to host one of the next 3 Summer Olympics; that means in either 2016, 2020, or 2024. The 2008 Olympics in Beijing will be a good practice run as all of the new hotels and “shopping campuses” currently announced will be completed by 2007.

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Posted on Monday, September 29th, 2003 at 2:22 pm and filed under Japan, diary, events. Subscribe to RSS 2.0. Skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging disabled.

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