-They demand to meet the king prior to the opening ceremony. Afterwards, there shall be a cocktail reception. Drinks shall be paid for by the Royal Palace or the local organizing committee.
-Separate lanes should be created on all roads where IOC members will travel, which are not to be used by regular people or public transportation.
-A welcome greeting from the local Olympic boss and the hotel manager should be presented in IOC members' rooms, along with fruit and cakes of the season. (Seasonal fruit in Oslo in February is a challenge...)
-The hotel bar at their hotel should extend its hours "extra late" and the minibars must stock Coke products.
-The IOC president shall be welcomed ceremoniously on the runway when he arrives.
-The IOC members should have separate entrances and exits to and from the airport.
-During the opening and closing ceremonies a fully stocked bar shall be available. During competition days, wine and beer will do at the stadium lounge.
-IOC members shall be greeted with a smile when arriving at their hotel.
-Meeting rooms shall be kept at exactly 20 degrees Celsius at all times.
-The hot food offered in the lounges at venues should be replaced at regular intervals, as IOC members might "risk" having to eat several meals at the same lounge during the Olympics.
The IOC issued a statement responding to Oslo's decision:
This is a missed opportunity for the City of Oslo and for all the people of Norway who are known world-wide for being huge fans of winter sports. And it is mostly a missed opportunity for the outstanding Norwegian athletes who will not be able to reach new Olympic heights in their home country.
There's Beijing, China, which doesn't actually sit within 120 miles of a usable ski mountain, and there's Almaty, Kazakhstan, which in its bid touted itself as "the world's largest landlocked nation."Gotta go with the country that has superior potassium imo
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China, for instance, is promising the construction of a super high-speed train to those far off mountains, even though Beijing is littered with abandoned venues from its 2008 Summer Games. Price doesn't matter.
And Almaty actually has a decent, viable and potentially winning bid. It looks like a good place for the Games, at least once you get past the Borat jokes – "Other Central Asian countries have inferior potassium."
the minibars must stock Coke products
I thought dogs were supposed to be loyal to their masters.Quotethe minibars must stock Coke products
What about Dr. Pepper? :tocry
even the bitchiest, most high-maintenance celebrities my company deals with don't ask for all of that. That includes the billionaires who made shitty mimosas out of $500 champagne.
No wonder only places like Brazil, Russia and China get these things.
Vince McMahon should create the xolympics
:deadVince McMahon should create the xolympics
And it still won't have any wrestling.