FF - Ireland should bid for the 2072 Olympic Games

I doubt the Olympics will be still around by then. There's already waning interest in cities putting their hand up. Brisbane is already looking to cut costs as the public aren't happy with the amount of taxpayers money being spent on it. And that's from a sports mad country.

We have as much chance of hosting mount Everest expeditions, Antarctic explorations and the Paris Dakar rally as hosting the Olympics

We did have part of the tour de france though, so maybe!

The Middle Eastern countries are itching to get in on the action hosting events like this and they have more money that they know what to do with.

The surfing this year was in Tahiti. And in 1956 the Melbourne games staged their equestrian events in Sweden. Ireland could agree with some other main host venue to stage certain events here in future.

It's us that were stupid for not taking our chance to abolish the Seanad.

Im surprised it took a politician this long to come up with the suggestion.

These utterances usually happen in the immediate aftermath of Ireland winning a medal, but it's been almost a week since we won a medal.

Also the time scale, 2072, he's adding plenty of buffer there not to be declared a clown straight away.

Or the Mosney games.

We don't have a big athletics stadium so we couldn't host the European Athletics championship and definitely not the Worlds. It would be a complete white elephant also if we built one.

We could definitely host the European u18 or u20s though. They seem to be in small stadia like Santry.

Even if we had all the money required and got it. They need to target the 2060 games to be ready for 2072 going by their track record on things on time

and the Giro dItalia