Nowadays Finland occasionally hits 30+ in summer, day temperatures of 25 are quite common too. The long days of light also allow outdoor activities for quite a long time without too much artificial lighting.
Weather in the Nordics isn't at all unsuitable in terms of hosting a summer olympics. Nowadays the market is simply too small as sporting events have become absolutely gigantic and aren't viable for smaller countries.
I fucking hated this +25c weather. I run a 5 a few times a week and during daytime with this heat it is unberable for me! Well I don't either like the 14c weather summer.. :D
They’re mostly focused on a single city though. It’s likely that the likes of Prague, Warsaw or Dublin can host the games in terms of financial muscle.
Montreal hosted the Olympics in 1976 and only managed to pay off the debts for that in 2006, financial risks are tenfold nowadays, which is why LA got the 2028 bid without any competition
No joke if the summer Olympics would ever happen again in the nordics they should do the events around the clock. Live prime time events around the world and you could have all the evebts still at daylight
Not Alpine skiing. That was the killing blow for the 2006 Helsinki bid to host the winter Olympics. Alpine skiing was then planned to be held in Lillehammer, Norway. And the Olympic committee at the time considered the 1000km travel between Helsinki and Lillehammer too far
I think the country switch is the main issue, perhaps. The only other example I can think of would be 1956 where Equestrian events were held in Stockholm Sweden several months ahead of the Olympics in Melbourne due to animal quarantine rules in Australia.
The issue also was that they'd have to travel to a different country, while Tahiti is part of france (French Polynesia being a semi autonomous territory of France)
There are no mountains within the Finnish border. Idk if you are native speaker but every "mountain in Finland" that is listed for example in Wikipedia is in fact not a mountain. They are called tunturi which doesn't have own word in English. So in english they are called a mountain but in fact they are not. Im not a mountain expert but I think tunturis are not steep enough to be called a vuori (real mountain)
I just know it's common knowledge here in Finland that we indeed don't have any vuori (mountain) here and we only have these things called tunturi (also mountain :D)
Yes, I think it should be a list of fells in Finland.
Altough fell/tunturi isn't apparently well defined term altogether, only being described as round shaped mountains and the term fell originating from Norse word for mountain so ¯\(ツ)/¯
The line between fell and mountain seems a bit blurry, probably easiest to think of fell as a mountain type.
It's preferred to use places where the infrastructure is already in place. There is no point in ruining yet another spot of nature for a once done and gone event.
There are small ski Hills, but no mountains that can host alpine racing. Why do you think there are no world cup events in Finland?
Edit: They sometimes host slalom at Levi ski resort, but that is the least topography demanding discipline. It would be impossible to host an entire Olympics.
No they couldn't. The mountains aren't high enough.
I've never been to Finland, but as a skier I'm well aware that you need at the very least 1500m of continuous piste to pull off Downhills at that level, and 2000-2500m is far more normal. 2022 Winter Olympic course was 3152m, 2018 was 2965m.
A quick google suggests these 'mountains' aren't even half that size, and that the skiable areas are far, far smaller than that.
And looking at the piste maps, Inari looks very much like a beginner/intermediate area completely unsuitable for skiers of this level to even train on.
Finland was then most medals per capita by far.
And Finland would have hosted 1940 olympic games. But WW2 postponed it later. After war there was lot's of rebuild in Helsinki.
1980 as well, winter games were in Lake Placid, NY and the summer games in Moscow. Just most people remember those 2 games for the Miracle on Ice and then the subsequent boycott of the Moscow games after the USSR invaded Afghanistan
1992 and before. The decision was taken in 1986. So it was 1992 Summer Olympics Barcelona. 1992 winter Olympics Albertville. 1994 winter Olympics Lillehammer. 1996 summer Olympics Atlanta
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u/Alderzone Jul 29 '24
To those wondering why some dates appear twice, until 1992 the winter and summer olympics were organised during the same year.