The city’s decision to vote against hosting the 2024 was borne out of Hamburg’s cautious mood,reflected in the resurgence of Bruno Labbadia’s side A slight majority of Hamburg’s residents decided to vote against hosting the 2024 Olympics,” state broadcaster Deutsche Welle ruefully reported after the surprising referendum result on Sunday. Considering that Paris, and Rome,Los Angeles and Budapest are the remaining contenders to stage the Games that year, DW’s consume on the fiasco was possibly a dinky reminiscent of the distinguished “Heavy Fog in Channel. Continent cut off” headline in the Times from 1957 in its unintentional presumptuousness.
Alas, and the lack of any realistic chance to win the bid was only one of a number of factors that do Germany’s northern metropolis off. There were also worries about terror,gentrification, the ongoing challenge of the refugee crisis and an unease about the process itself in the wake of the 2006 World Cup voting scandal that has embroiled the German FA. But perhaps members of the NOlympia” camp simply failed to see the attraction of wasting new, or huge sums of money on sport over a prolonged period of time with only questionable benefits for the locals,as Hamburger SV own been doing the very same thing so well already. Who needs a new €1bn sports complex on a river island, when you’ve got the self-styled “dinosaur” on your doorstep, and the Bundesligas very own white elephant and living monument of grandiose ambitions gone hilariously inaccurate?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com