Well it's not a shame not to know, but it's a shame not to know and call me an American w/o knowledge for calling it like it is!

It's not like I'm distancing myself from what I said earlier.. It still is not a strange decision from the olympic organization.

This post was edited by SeaBas on Jul 13 2011 04:58am

Yo makin no sense man!

If you read carefully you'll see that I'm not saying it's 'strange' - I'm saying it's a decision for the wrong reasons. France and Germany are classical wintersport nations in the heart of a wintersport region.

Southkorea has which wintersport nations in proximity? Right, none!
And their medals being all from basically one event is my argument for them not being a typical wintersport nation.

Wot they do / will provide are potent sponsors and well-organized games - but so will Qatar.

Qatar has no football history whatsoever. No audience. Horrible climate. 40+ degrees in summer, how can football be played like that? They're going to use AIRCONDITIONING in the stadiums. FIFA chose Qatar's environmentally horrible bid over England's 'green WC'.

(Investigation and rumors about Qatar having bribed voters etc.. clearly)

About the Korea thing..

There are only a few typical winter sports countries in the world. Canada/US/Germany/France/Austria/Switzerland/Italy/Russia/Norway/Sweden/Finland, that's about it. That would mean about all olympic winter games would be held in Europe or on the North American continent. Clearly they were now looking for a wealthy non-western Country that has some experience in winter sports and that has a large audience. Considering this, Korea is not a bad option at all.

Going to be boring.

I thought Korea was all desert