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Erm, dont vote for him then! It's a democratic vote and if the majority want him in as Mayor, what is the problem!Vote Corbyn ! Save this country ! -
Some people think democracy is only OK if it gets the result they wantOriginally posted by fullyautomatix View Post
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Oh, and it was Ken who made the successful bid for the 2012 Olympics; again, Boris tried to claim credit for something that was all sorted out before he got the job.Originally posted by NickFitz View PostComment
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Thankfully I don't live in London, but it's fun watching the cesspit implode from a safe distance.
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To use your analogy, Boris = HitlerOriginally posted by AtW View Post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_S...city_selection
Host city selection[edit]
The bidding for these Olympic Games was the first to be contested by IOC members casting votes for their own favorite host cities.[6] The vote occurred in 1931, during the Weimar Republic, before Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933. Many other cities around the world also wanted to host the Summer Olympics for that year, but except for Barcelona they did not receive any IOC votes. The other cities competing to hold the games were Alexandria, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cologne, Dublin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Lausanne, Nuremberg, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, and Rome.[5]
The selection procedure marked the second and final time that the International Olympic Committee would gather to vote in a city which was bidding to host those Games. The only other time this occurred was at the inaugural IOC Session in Paris, France, on 24 April 1894. Then, Athens and Paris were chosen to host the 1896 and 1900 Games, respectively. Academics cannot agree whether the IOC during this period was a willing collaborator or an organisation that favoured the aesthetics of fascist governments.[7] Although the IOC was insulated from the reality of Nazism, elements of Hitler's regime subscribed to the sporting ideologies of the IOC.[7]
After the Nazis took control and began instituting anti-Semitic policies, the IOC held private discussions among its delegates about changing the decision to hold the Games in Berlin. However, Hitler's regime gave assurances that Jewish athletes would be allowed to compete on a German Olympic team. In September 1934, the US Olympic committee publicly accepted the invitation to go to the Berlin games, halting any further IOC attempts to quietly revise the decision.[8]
The next scheduled games in 1940 were awarded to Tokyo. The Japanese military even demanded that venues should be built from wood because metal was needed for its wars in Manchuria.[9] The Olympic torch relay – itself pioneered as part of the 1936 Summer Games – was to fly the Olympic flame from Berlin to Tokyo in a specially-designed long-range aircraft.[10] In 1938 the Japanese rejected hosting the games because they saw the Olympics and its pacifist values as 'an effete form of European culture'.[7]Comment
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Nope: "Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain, on 26 April 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona (two years before the Nazis came to power)" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_OlympicsOriginally posted by AtW View PostComment
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