After waiting over 12 years for someone to tell the full story of the No Games Chicago campaign, Tom Tresser decided to do it himself. “No Games Chicago: How a Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid” is available from Routledge Press. Get more details, as well as access all sorts of …
From the New York Times, 2/28/22 – “South Korea spent at least $13 billion on the Games, with some experts projecting returns on this investment of $58 billion within 10 years. Local news outlets speculated that the Olympics could help Gangwon Province “emerge as one of the world’s major winter tourist attractions.” Yet on a recent visit to Pyeongchang, the distance from that vision and the present reality seemed immense, with Covid-related travel restrictions worsening what had already been a lackluster start to the county’s post-Olympics life.”
Don’t say we didn’t warn you!
Check out this interview from February 4, 2022.
After the COVID Games in Tokyo in 2021 (delayed by a years), we now have the Genocide Games in China.
This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities. It explores and critiques the process by which cities bid for the Olympics in the current context of the International Olympic Committee’s changing bid requirements and from the social justice perspectives of Olympics opponents. Using …
No Games Chicago gets a little love in the article in a 2020 issues of Leisure Studies, “Event Bidding and New Media Activism” by David McGillivray, John Lauermann, and Daniel Turner. Tom spoke to John some time ago and asked him (as a scholar of sport, economics, and policy) to include No Games Chicago in …
Coming up this October will be the ninth anniversary of the vote by the International Olympic Committee that send the 2016 Games to Rio and not Chicago. Aside from the scholarly article you can see in a post below, the story of No Games remains unreported in the mainstream press.
In this video Tom Tresser, one of the organizers of No Games, tells the in-depth story behind the campaign and reveal details never revealed before, including how we KNOW we were effective. The video was made on October 16, 2010 at a meeting of the College of Complexes. The video was done by Tim Bolger.
Nine years later but better late than never! No Games Chicago finally gets into the mainstream media record via a chapter in the 2016 book Sport, Protest and Globalisation – Stopping Play by Jon Dart and Stephen Wagg. The chapter is ironically (or prophetically) titled “Chicago 2016 Versus Rio 2016: Olympic ‘Winners’ and ‘Losers’” by …
You can’t make this stuff up! Rio 2016 head arrested for corruption. He had 16 gold bars worth almost $2 million!
Can you imagine the corruption, waste and debt that would’ve piled up by a Chicago Olympics??
