Liverpool e Manchester potrebbero candidarsi alle Olimpiadi del 2040?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79xw31rpzno?app-referrer=deep-link
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Liverpool e Manchester potrebbero candidarsi alle Olimpiadi del 2040?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79xw31rpzno?app-referrer=deep-link
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The 2000 bid for Manchester was talked down by many across the country.
There’s no way anything like that will be coming up to us plebs in the North West despite the infrastructure being in place for it (City’s ground, new Old Trafford, Everton’s new stadium)… at best we may get an event or two, maybe a couple of football games at the grounds… It’ll be too much money to be spent for the beancounters down in London (and potentially not enough of them being able to skim off the top). While I’d love it being almost bang in the middle of them both, it’s never going to happen
Nope, incompetent central government won’t allow it.
I think it would be doable, but as the article says, transport links might be a strike against them. That said, on the Manchester side at least, transport’s probably in the best state it’s been for a while. Hotel capacity is probably decent as well, which is another factor that’s taken into account. Manchester has pretty solid sporting facilities, and I’m sure that a successful bid could persuade the government to open the purse strings to upgrade stuff.
Given Manchester should still have a good number of facilities in place from the Commonwealth Games, I don’t see why not.
If we want to get away from being so London-centric and this snootiness towards anything outside of it, then I’m for it. About time the other cities in the UK was talked up to be competitive, after they suffered such a decline
Can’t see it happening.
Manchester has a few venues that might make it work, but loath as I am to admit it as a Scouser, Liverpool isn’t quite there. The new Bramley Moore stadium now home to Everton is big, but it is built as a football stadium, not a track and field stadium, with no room to adapt it. Same for Anfield, and Goodison isn’t going to be around much longer I’d bet money on it. And that’s about it.
Manchester has a few more stadiums and arenas thanks to holding the Commonwealth games in 2002, but the main stadium (now the Etihad) was totally restructured for football before Man City moved in, so would be a huge job to change it back. The Aquatics centre isn’t big enough, and Liverpool doesn’t even have one.
Transport links up here aren’t great either.
You could build all new infrastructure, but I can’t see it happening.
Only issue i could see would be branding and transport. Could even be the catalyst for an extended city area between the two, for better or worse.
With the amount of money being poured into Manchester these days i’d say yes. whether they’ll be successful is down to how spiteful London wants to be.
If it did though I can see it now, Olympic bucket hats everywhere…
Why would we?
The olympics costs many billions to host, and the actual benefits at that cost to cities are mostly negative.
In a *lot* of the cities that have hosted it, the infrastructure built at great expense is sitting and crumbling from lack of use.
Even the stuff built for London 2012 is mostly not in heavy use – and a lot of the new stadiums were sold on the cheap to football clubs to get the maintenance off the books.
Fucking hell will the world still be around in 2040 or not, first of all?
Might give them a reason to build Northern Powerhouse Rail
It should be embarrassing for us that only one city is deemed capable of hosting the Olympics. We are way too centralised.
Australia would have had 3 different cities host by 2032.
If Brisbane can I’m sure the north west can put a realistic bid in.