In my post 8 February Luca has left more than a legitimate question:''if South Africa succeeds in organizing the World Cup in 2010, because could not do it (even at the level of budget) for the Olympics in 2028 or 2032?''. In my opinion, as the title suggests, the answer is no African nation currently / in the short perspective, is able to ensure the Olympic organization to the extent required by modern standards. The
explain why the not think very briefly, below. As a reference standard for a top-level follow the Olympic bid - book of Salzburg 2014, you can find in English and French at this link: http://www.salzburg2014.com/en/ourplan_1160. html
Let's start now by two preliminary considerations:
1. the example given in the bid - book Winter Olympics is certainly less difficult to organize a summer, especially from the logistical point of view (3500 athletes instead 11000, proportionately less managers, coaches and journalists). On the other hand it is difficult to think of the Winter Olympics in Africa by 2030.
2.La 2032 Olympic venue will be chosen in 2025, so this is the target date, 18 years from now.
To date, the African nation can provide more guarantees to the organization of a sports event of great importance and just South Africa, as shown by the just allocation of World Cup 2010, so the country's former apartheid , one of the richest and most politically stable, can be used as best case analysis.
final consideration before the comparisons: the World Cup was awarded to South Africa by a large and skillful maneuver Blatter to reinforce the universality of football, that is, introduce a rotation of the continents in the organization . Then: Asia 2002, Europe 2006, Africa 2010, America 2014. After the round of consensus Blatter immediately folded (and England is favored in 2018).
As is clear in South Africa and then organizes the world because had been established previously that the game was when the Dark Continent, not as winning a world competition.
Starting with the hours in the comparative bid book is now out Shortcomings in a South African organization. While the security, then the supposed capacity to cope with and prevent terrorist attacks, or simply the powerful local crime, in Chapter 6 it comes to finances, which is inextricably linked with the problem of political stability.
In 2010, in fact, the organizing committee has had several mishaps, including lack of funding, backwardness of the work and internal disputes, so as to threaten even the termination of the mandate and entrusted with the emergency procedure to Germany.
scuttle a candidacy would probably be instrumental for problems of this type (the Olympic Committee would be involved here, beyond the Football Association), as are common in most countries "developed" (read for the Mediterranean Games Italy 2009), but in the minds of delegates anything goes . This form of instability is, in my view only in third place in the scale of the problems South Africans.
In second place we find that the sports facilities (Chapter 8), for the World Cup 2010 is about building a stadium and accommodate others. The effort for the Games would be much higher considering the large structural deficit. Everything is linked clearly to the previous point: it is necessary to overcome an enormous economic effort difficult for the South African government is able to ensure full.
This lack of monetary guarantees, however, is due basically to the problem prince, often overlooked by less attentive, but the key point of any Olympic aspiration: the logistics of people and goods. To organize an event like this is not enough to build some equipment, train volunteers and fix the races, but you need a re-verification total transport infrastructure. He's doing well in London, with heavy investment, although more than 10 subway lines, other cities should do more poorly equipped.
This I believe is the infrastructure deficit gap remains today the main town in the southern hemisphere (Australia excluded) the opportunity to compete on equal terms with the metropolises of the North. The investment required would have an economic dimension so high that an unbearable burden. For this reason, in a post in the past indicates a very wealthy sponsor one of the few opportunities to reverse the situation. The
This framework is certainly going to change in coming decades, or at least I hope so, but I think at the same time that 18 years is too short a time.
said that, between now and 2032 is possible for an African city could become Olympic venue, but in my view, despite the repeated efforts of Cape Town for more praiseworthy, can only be accurate for political choice. This on the other hand will probably be the Games of Coomowealth 2014, where Abuja (Nigeria) is competing against Glasgow and Halifax .
I note that they are not wanted to fall into the clichés of security and corruption (the whole world over).
Two notes to conclude:
a) at the Beijing Games most of the tickets will be priced limited (about 10 €) for it to also purchase a large portion of the local population, which obviously has much more purchasing power lower than ours. Commendable initiative: sacrificed the love of the budget for love of country.
b) the obelisk in front of the Olympic Stadium (being restored) was covered by a billboard in the Chinese Olympic Committee, which recalls the commitment for the 2008 Games. Let's hope so.
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