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#81
March 20th, 2014, 18:26 (This post was last modified: March 20th, 2014, 18:39 by antisocialmunky.)
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October 1st, 2014, 16:48
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Oslo finally withdrew its bid for the 2022 winter olympics.
It's down to Almaty (Kazakhstan) and Beijing.
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/n...s-25894588

Like Deadspin wrote in may: "The failed and aborted 2022 candidacies all have one thing in common: When actual citizens are allowed to have a say, they say they don't want the Olympics."
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October 2nd, 2014, 00:38 (This post was last modified: October 2nd, 2014, 00:39 by NobleHelium.)
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The best part of that Deadspin article is the comments about Qatar. lol
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October 7th, 2014, 21:15
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Yahoo! sports had a very similar article recently. I guess it's between a spot in China nowhere near any mountains and then $&#^ Kazakhstan!
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October 7th, 2014, 23:05
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Well that's not true actually, Beijing is quite close to mountains. It was built there so that its back would be on mountains making it more defensible. There's mountains all along the northwest perimeter of Beijing.
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#86
October 8th, 2014, 07:44
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It will give lots of opportunity to show a snow covered Great Wall.

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October 8th, 2014, 09:42
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(October 8th, 2014, 07:44)darrelljs Wrote: It will give lots of opportunity to show a snow covered Great Wall.

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There you go, you don't even need to build a bobsled track. Just hose it down and get it covered in ice.

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October 8th, 2014, 10:09
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(October 7th, 2014, 23:05)NobleHelium Wrote: Well that's not true actually, Beijing is quite close to mountains. It was built there so that its back would be on mountains making it more defensible. There's mountains all along the northwest perimeter of Beijing.

Apologies, I was lazy and didn't reopen the article. The actual claim is "...there's Beijing, China, which doesn't actually sit within 120 miles of a usable ski mountain..."
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October 8th, 2014, 10:19
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(October 8th, 2014, 10:09)sunrise089 Wrote:
(October 7th, 2014, 23:05)NobleHelium Wrote: Well that's not true actually, Beijing is quite close to mountains. It was built there so that its back would be on mountains making it more defensible. There's mountains all along the northwest perimeter of Beijing.

Apologies, I was lazy and didn't reopen the article. The actual claim is "...there's Beijing, China, which doesn't actually sit within 120 miles of a usable ski mountain..."

Neither does Oslo, actually. 120 miles isn't that far.
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October 8th, 2014, 11:43
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A good ski jumper should be able to jump twice that distance.
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