Today, 06:24 AM
Nothing -- and I do mean nothing -- was said about it at the time. It just happened, like that's the way it had always been, and truth be known a great many people didn't even notice. I thought that was weird. But it made sense to me why they did it. The way it was the IOC had to either quadruple their staff every other year and lay them all off again after the games, or pay a staff twice as big as it needed to be all the time even though few of them had anything to do for two years but twiddle their thumbs.
It was probably also good for viewership because people didn't get all Olympicked out before the winter opening ceremonies even began. It was a massive feast followed by three years of famine. They should have set it up this way when they first started doing winter sports.
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