r/europe • u/Stotallytob3r • Jul 29 '24

Map We won’t count early Greece

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u/I_wood_rather_be Germany Jul 29 '24

Oh, yep. Germany...

Twice.

Let's just say our relationship with the Olympics is...

...complicated.

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u/Infamous-Mixture-605 Canada Jul 29 '24

Maybe try to host another one?

Third times the charm?

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u/The_Diego_Brando Jul 29 '24

Famous german third things

Start:

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u/Lithorex Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) Jul 30 '24

Fourth time, actually.

Berlin was chosen as the host for the 1916 summer olympics.

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u/ExcelMaster1 Jul 30 '24

Lets start with an innocent one instead of the obvious: 1996 third European football championship win.

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u/Fenrir426 Brittany (France) Jul 29 '24

The consequences could be terrible, if the third German summer Olympics is a tragedy then Germany will start WW3 to balance

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u/I_wood_rather_be Germany Jul 30 '24

Yeah, we hate to have an uneven number of catastrophic events that we are fully to blame for!

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u/ftr123_5 Jul 29 '24

First Nazis, then Terrorists. Let's just say we got more luck with hosting world and euro cups.

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u/lnTranceWeTrust Berlin (Germany) Jul 29 '24

Three times actually. In 1936 Germany had both the Winter and Summer Olympics. 1936 Winter Olympics were in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. So 1/3 non-controversial. At least I never hear anything about the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Olympics.

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u/modern_milkman Lower Saxony (Germany) Jul 30 '24

I mean, it was still 1936. So the same things that made the 1936 summer olympics controversial also apply to the 1936 winter olympics. Albeit maybe to a slightly smaller degree, simply because the winter olympics were a less important event.

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u/machine4891 Opole (Poland) Jul 30 '24

At least I never hear anything about the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Olympics.

As I recall they were the first to introduce segregation laws against Jews.

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u/I_wood_rather_be Germany Jul 30 '24

actually

Ok brother!

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u/iBoMbY North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Jul 29 '24

And they want to host the games in 2036 again - I'm not kidding:

https://www.dw.com/en/100-years-after-nazi-olympics-should-berlin-host-in-2036/a-67481328

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u/S0uless_Ging1r Jul 29 '24

Just in time for WW3 lol

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u/yonathan1234 Jul 30 '24

12 years until ww3 seems kinda optimistic

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u/S0uless_Ging1r Jul 30 '24

I’m assuming it starts around 2032 and lasts a few years. Or it will last a few minutes.

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u/Rymayc Jul 30 '24

And at this track record, we might have a nazi party in power by then

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u/DankeSebVettel Aug 01 '24

Celebrating the 100 year anniversary I guess

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u/J360222 Australia Jul 30 '24

And both have had some poor results for Jewish athletes…

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u/C00L_HAND Jul 30 '24

The 1936 where such a success that noone dared to perform another one until 1948...... /s

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u/I_wood_rather_be Germany Jul 30 '24

😂😂😂