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Swiss Authorities to Investigate FIFA Over 2018 and 2022 World Cup Bids

When you have to truck in snow because your weather is too warm you are not a viable candidate for a winter games.

Normally there is snow. Global warming ya know..
 
SLC did make sense.. it's a winter city. Sochi is one of the furthest south winter games held.

No, it did not make sense considering the massive corruption scandal involved in that bid... Salt Lake bribed their way to getting the games and when they were found out.. did they lose the games? of course not. And here comes a great example of why I dont like this with FIFA going on in the US.

2 were charged ... both acquitted and yet the evidence was there for a massive bribery scandal and that scandal cost the posts of a considerable number of IOC members and forced massive reforms in the IOC. But no one went to jail as far as I know.
 
No, read the fact that Europe was in entrenched in major issues in the early 20th century. Between WW1 and WW2. If FIFA was in another country during the Cold War, Soviet Union would have been banned.

Why not Ireland? Or Sweden? Both were neutral... oh yea, banking and secrecy laws were no where near the standard of Switzerland.
 
Normally there is snow. Global warming ya know..

No, normally there is not much snow in Sochi. The average temperature in Sochi in the winter is 52F (hence the abundance of palm trees). The average temperature during the Winter Olympics was 51F.

Also, weather is not climate.
 
5 or 6? I suppose.

The U.S. could pick it up quick, but we don't have the goal-line tech set up here and that could take a while to get calibrated. We do, however, have the facilities. Brazil could theoretically host it again, since it's fresh off of last year's, as could South Africa, but there's zero chance of either happening. The UK and France could do it. Possibly Germany. That's it for 2018.

fifa acted like a criminal organization. If there is no other venue? Drop the Cup. That will make the fans understand how bad it is to have governments and judiciary that allow corruption to go on and on and on.
 
No, normally there is not much snow in Sochi. The average temperature in Sochi in the winter is 52F (hence the abundance of palm trees). The average temperature during the Winter Olympics was 51F.

Also, weather is not climate.

There should be snow way up in the mountains I would have thought. I was there in a hot late Summer, but in the hills it was chilly.
 
Why not Ireland? Or Sweden? Both were neutral... oh yea, banking and secrecy laws were no where near the standard of Switzerland.

Geo-political issues. UK countries wouldn't sign off on Ireland. Sweden wasn't really neutral. Sweden had a pro-Germany policy until 1916. FIFA was broke post WW1. So of course banking and secrecy laws played a role but not a huge one for a broke org. Rather it was that French, German and Italy were the spoken languages that helped.
 
No, it did not make sense considering the massive corruption scandal involved in that bid... Salt Lake bribed their way to getting the games and when they were found out.. did they lose the games? of course not. And here comes a great example of why I dont like this with FIFA going on in the US.

2 were charged ... both acquitted and yet the evidence was there for a massive bribery scandal and that scandal cost the posts of a considerable number of IOC members and forced massive reforms in the IOC. But no one went to jail as far as I know.

Actually, geographically it made sense. It was North America's turn. It was gonna be SLC or Quebec. Yes, 2 were charged and yes bribery took place...

US isn't just going after FIFA. This joint investigation with the Swiss authorities.
 
Not exactly true... it is now.. it was not this morning.

It's 100% true. It's joint. Swiss was informed by the US back in March and brought into the fold. Swiss joined the investigation then.
 
There should be snow way up in the mountains I would have thought. I was there in a hot late Summer, but in the hills it was chilly.

Rosa Khutor, the "ski village" in the nearby Caucuses where the Olympics were held has an average January temperature of about 50F.

Nothing about the region says "Snow".

The mountain caps have snow, but that area is unsuitable for anything but extreme skiing. That is why they trucked in huge amounts of chemically treated snow for most of the events and the "Ski Village" had water flooding through it all week from the melt-off of the artificial snow events further up the mountain.
 
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