| Having grown up near Lake Placid, NY, which hosted both the '32 and '80 games, I'm wondering if mendelevium is being sarcastic or serious? Many people *think* that hosting the Olympics stimulates the local economies, but actually, it often saddles cities with mind-boggling debt, and in the case of Upstate New York, we now have a bunch of outdated venues that are hard to re-develop. You just don't get a lot of biathlete tourists or retirees on bobsleigh excursions ... |