There's a decent chance that Salt Lake City could wind up being part of a permanent rotation of Olympics hosts.
To hear the world's Olympic leaders tell it, the bidding for future Winter Games has been jumbled by internal disputes at India's Olympic committee, a newfound affinity for streamlining the bidding process and, most recently, a long-overdue nod to the impact of climate change.
That, in turn, leads to the idea that the Olympics could someday be rotated between a handful of cities — an idea that long has been floated for both summer and winter as the bloated budgets and overbuilt infrastructure of Olympic hosts becomes as inevitable as the lighting of the flame.
“The way it was presented, is saying by a double allocation, we would win some time to then establish a sound rotation system," IOC President Thomas Bach said of the process explained to IOC executives by Dubi's organizing group. Also, there were only two bidders for 2022 — China and Kazakhstan — which left the IOC dealing with the embarrassing reality that no one in the West wants to do this anymore.The rotation system — something many Olympic watchers feel is long overdue — could be an easier sell for the Winter Games due to climate change.
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