With adequate political will, funding, and management you could host an Olympics nearly anywhere. Of course, you also have to get the IOC onboard. Chicago was, for all appearances, a perfectly cromulant bid that lost because too many IOC members got stars in their eyes for Rio. Sochi's backers spent their way into the members' hearts. NH has to make them want it, or it needs to pull a Beijing II -type hand where everyone else bails.
I'm aware anywhere could host it if they wanted to and had he money.
I'll start with a few things and let you guys go from there.
- whiteface is in NY. I have no idea what it's like but that's pretty friggin far, so I'm not sure why it would even be mentioned when Killington is much closer and a legit mountain. Anyone that thinks Breton Woods could handle Olympic skiing, well, should ski more. I'm not someone anyone would call a 'good' skier and I could handle the toughest slopes at Breton woods when I was about twelve. It's far too small a mountain to make Olympic runs on.
- Where do you think we are getting the money from? We have no income tax and no sales tax. We have some of the highest real estate taxes on the country because of this. I would bet good money that you wouldn't get more than 2% of state population to support spending billions of dollars to build Olympic facilities from anyone at least tiny bit rational. We have serious issues in this state, top of the list being a pretty damn bad heroin epidemic, but yeah let's spend billions on the Olympics.
- The amount of infrastructure needed would be astronomical and completely useless afterwards. We can barely handle tourist season. No, Manchester doesn't have enough hotels and no the state doesn't have enough highways. We were worried about how bad it would suck when there was rumors about Boston, because it would impact us. And you guys think the state would make a bid?
- Great point on Sochi. As soon as Putin and his mobsters move to town we should have the backing.
I mean, even the amount of people to work it and the amount of plows to keep the streets clean of snow aren't even in the realm of practicality, let alone that outside the Verizon center and Whittemore there isn't a single venue in the state that could host an Olympic event.
I mean, I have to assume you guys are fucking joking. Throwing around Boston, Beijing and Chicago as comps. This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen proposed. I'm going to give you two the benefit of the doubt that you're joking.