Oh the poor souls on the International Olympic Committee… Now that Oslo has snubbed them come to their senses, the only remaining bidders for the 2022 winter games are Kazakhstan and China. (What does that say? Discuss.)
“Senior politicians in Norway appear not to have been properly briefed on the process and were left to take their decisions on the basis of half-truths and factual inaccuracies,” the IOC executive director clucked to the press.
How about this for a truth: The IOC demanded that (among a long list of other perks) that they (the committee — that bastion of full-truth and accuracy) be granted a meeting with the king and that drinks at the royal reception be paid by the palace (or by the local organizing committee, but certainly not by the IOC who are there, after all, to schmooze and booze and … well do those things that global elites are so want to do).
So then Oslo pulls out of the running. And the IOC executive director thinks that the Norwegian politicians have not been properly briefed.
What a perfect example of our globe-trotting, elite-centric world. Olympexit. Good riddance.