US wins 1940 Olympics bid.
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Not happening, half the world's on fire and no one has the time for frivolities like an athletics competition.
Maybe promote it as a chance to settle things on the sporting field?
And if the governments would send representatives maybe we could get some negotiations happening during the games.
And if the governments would send representatives maybe we could get some negotiations happening during the games.
Jasen777
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Of course the U.S. held an Olympics in 1904 that few other countries attended. And there were they boycott in '80 which reduced the number of countries almost in half. They could certainly go through with it even if not many other countries can send people.
If I may borrow the thread a bit: historically the 1940 Summer Olympics in Helsinki were cancelled, but the yearly Finland-Sweden Athletics International was held in August, with the curiosity of Germany participating as well - the event is sometimes referred to as "the miniature Olympics" in Finland. I wonder if any other countries (Switzerland? The Balkans?) would have been willing and ready to participate in such games?
In place of the cancelled 1940 Tokyo Games, there was instead a special athletic competition in honor of the 2600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire. Along with Japan, there were also teams from Manchukuo, the Nanjing Chinese puppet regime, and Inner Mongolia. There would also be a similar athletic competition in Germany complete with teams from Italy, Spain and also Slovakia and Croatia.
Why does the Baseball "World" Series come to mind?
Oh, you mean the contest where the best baseball players from Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, the Spanish Caribbean, Francophonic and Anglophonic North America play in the world's top league to determine who the best collection of players from or who have nationalities in said countries are?
There would probably have been a relatively small Olympics dominated by athletes from the Americas. I'm not sure if it would have been feasible for athletes from neutral countries in Europe to get across the Atlantic, but the United Kingdom/Canada might have sent a token delegation as part of their charm offensive to get the US into the war, and of course Japan was still neutral at this point as far as the conflict in Europe went. Regardless, whatever US city gets the Olympics isn't going to want to cancel, even if the international situation means it isn't as big an event as they were hoping for.
I say Minneapolis. Minneapolis lost the bid for 1948, 1952 and 1956. A smaller metro area (With Saint Paul) could host the relatively small amount of countries that could participate in those Olympics.
Oh, you mean the contest where the best baseball players from Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, the Spanish Caribbean, Francophonic and Anglophonic North America play in the world's top league to determine who the best collection of players from or who have nationalities in said countries are?
You mean like UEFA?Oh, you mean the contest where the best baseball players from Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, the Spanish Caribbean, Francophonic and Anglophonic North America play in the world's top league to determine who the best collection of players from or who have nationalities in said countries are?
That every non-US sport has some kind of World Cup in addition to elite multi national Leagues suggests there is still space in sport for some good old nationalism.
You mean like UEFA?
That every non-US sport has some kind of World Cup in addition to elite multi national Leagues suggests there is still space in sport for some good old nationalism.
Talent doesn't care about the logo on the side of your jersey, it cares about the logo on the front of your jersey.
And no, more like the best players in the world play in the highest paying league in the world and prove they're the best. Hence why I say they care more about the design on the front of their jerseys, not the shoulders (Where embroidered flags are usually located)
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Okay, what about 1940 Winter Olympics? You can have those in the same country fairly close - US 1980 (Winter) and 1984 (Summer) and US 1996 (Summer) and 2002 (Winter).
Before WWII the Summer and Winter Olympics were typically held in the same country unless the Summer Olympics host nation didn't have suitable weather/terrain for the Winter Olympics, so a TL where the US gets the Summer Olympics probably sees the Winter Olympics go to the US as well.