No dice for Chicago '16

It's just my opinion - but this is part of the reason. New Yorkers are not exactly the most friendly people in the world :badday: Also - yes, New York is the most international city in the world - BUT, the "heart of the games" would have to be in Manhattan - that would be difficult. . The reason the bid wasn't especially popular was the location of the stadium in Midown Manhattan -- not any hostility toward visitors or the games. An 80-100,000 seat stadium in Midtown was widely considered a hare-brained idea (it would have cost $1Billion and it wouldn't have been useful after the games) It was difficult to separate that from the bid itself. The bid would have have had much more enthusiastic support if the stadium were in a different site, intially. But once the Midtown stadium was killed, the bid was effectively dead, since there was no real alternate plan.

It's just my opinion - but this is part of the reason. New Yorkers are not exactly the most friendly people in the world :badday: Also - yes, New York is the most international city in the world - BUT, the "heart of the games" would have to be in Manhattan - that would be difficult. . The reason the bid wasn't especially popular was the location of the stadium in Midown Manhattan -- not any hostility toward visitors or the games. An 80-100,000 seat stadium in Midtown was widely considered a hare-brained idea (it would have cost $1Billion and it wouldn't have been useful after the games) It was difficult to separate that from the bid itself. The bid would have have had much more enthusiastic support if the stadium were in a different site, intially. But once the Midtown stadium was killed, the bid was effectively dead, since there was no real alternate plan.