If Anatoly Pakhomov lived in the USA, he’d be a teabagger.
The mayor of Sochi, the Russian city which will host the winter Olympics this year, has said that there are no gay people in Sochi. Yeah, he really said that. In his city of almost 350,000 people nobody is gay.
If 5% (1 in 20) people are gay, which strikes me as a reasonable guess (totally gay; if you’re talking about switch hitters, gay for pay, and/or experimenters, the percentage would be higher), then there are 17,000 gay people in Sochi. Also, there are at least a couple of gay clubs in Sochi. You’d think he’d know about those.
Extremely stupid man Anatoly Pakhomov
It’s willful ignorance, is what it is. It’s comparable to people who say that evolution never happened, marijuana is a dangerous drug, guns will make us safer, the Earth’s climate is not changing and if it is it’s not our fault, and the best way to improve the economy is by giving the rich people all of the money and not asking them to pay any taxes. Teabaggers.
Sochi was kind of a stupid choice for the winter Olympics, anyway. It’s in a volatile region, so security will have to be ridiculously tight, and there’s still a risk of violence.
I don’t know why we go through this every two years (winter and summer Olympics). Big arguments over which city to pick, a seemingly arbitrary choice which probably involves kickbacks, and then an Olympics which is like as not boycotted by some of the major players.
There is a simple solution. Greece gets the summer Olympics, Switzerland gets the winter Olympics, permanently. Nobody hates the Swiss, and Turkey’s hurt feelings would be somewhat assuaged by the overall increase of tourism to the region.
No more boycotts, like in 1984 (the Soviet bloc boycotting the L.A. Olympics), 1980 (the U.S. boycotting the Moscow Olympics), 1976 (a whole mess of different countries, like most of Africa plus China, boycotting the Montreal Olympics) and 1956 (again, a whole mess of different countries for different reasons boycotting the games in Melbourne).
Without the need to rebuild a city every couple of years, a bit of extra money could be spent to put up a seriously kick ass facility, and Greece could use the additional income. Plus, tradition.
I don’t see any down side to this.
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