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Brazil is preparing for the mundial
Farid Bictemirov on the Gazeta.ru website recalls that Brazil is preparing for the World Cup in a difficult social crisis. The police cleans the favela in shootouts with local gangs, and the demonstrators again go out into the streets, protesting against the unfair, in their opinion, distribution of the budget in favor of large sports events.
Demonstrations in Brazil, which began last summer with protests against the unfair social policy and high expenses for organizing the World Cup, are increasingly developing into riots and clashes with the police. The last protest of the protest near the Arena Corinthians under construction in San Paulo, at which the opening match of the mundial should take place without the victims, but at the end of April, reports of victims of unrest were received with frightening frequency.
On April 28, demonstrators burned five buses in the Kosta-Barros region in the north of Rio, expressing dissatisfaction with the actions of police officers who killed a 17-year-old guy in a shootout with drug dealers in Favel Zhokai. According to the protesters, his death was not accidental.
On April 23, on the territory of the school in Favel Pavao-Pavaosin, the 26-year-old professional dancer Douglas Pereira was found dead. According to the relatives of the deceased, the police killed him, taking him as a drug courier, but the preliminary statement of the authorities says that "death could occur as a result of a fall."
The death of Pereweira became a catalyst for new folk unrest. The demonstrators blocked the streets of the main tourist district of the city, capacabans, built barricades from car tires and set them on fire. After the protests began to burn cars and attacked the police station.
Three days earlier, the residents of the slum of Karamuyo, outraged by the death of two young people, arranged for the riots: one young man died, crashing on a motorcycle into an armored police car, the other law enforcement officers killed the order with bandits.
During the action, the protesters barricaded several central streets, set fire to a truck, two cars and four buses.
Also, the inhabitants of the slum set fire to cars and in revenge for the death of the 72-year-old pensioner Arlinda Beserra Das Chagas.
Local authorities assure that they will cope with these circumstances to the beginning of the world championship, but international observers are concerned about security problems in stadiums.
In addition, tourists and a number of national teams before the championship will have to drive past the rebellious Favel: the only road from the airport to the city center leads through the slums of the stump and Mare.
It all started in June 2013, when the government of San Paulo raised the prices for travel in public transport from 3 to 3.2 Real Madrid (the difference amounted to about 3 rubles). Throughout the country, people took to the streets, in total in protest, then more than 1 million people in 100 cities took part. In some of them, including Rio, the police had to use tear gas to disperse demonstrators.
The authorities quickly refused to increase prices, but the genie has already escaped from the bottle. Citizens remembered everything that prevented them from living over the past decades - a poor condition of schools, hospitals, roads, corruption and poor -quality police work.
Particular indignation was caused by budget expenses for the construction of facilities on the eve of the 2016 summer games and the World Cup, which will be held in 2014. Together, Brazil allocated $ 26 billion at these events.
In the city of Brazilia, the capital of the country, dozens of protesters passed by march past the buildings of Congress and the Supreme Court, and about 80 radicals tried to set fire to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, the remaining participants in the protest basically condemned manifestations of violence.
The number of victims in clashes with the police was calculated by hundreds, and two were killed. Unlike the current unrest in Faveli, then the Brazilian middle class was considered the main engine of protest.
President Dilma Roussuff tried to smooth out the situation, turning to the protesters and promising that she would spend more on education and healthcare, and $ 15 billion on the world championship will be shared by private companies, but she failed to finally cool the ardor of the demonstrators.
A new, less massive wave of protest against the cost of holding the championship was held in Brazil in January 2014. At the demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, San Paulo, Kuritib and Recyfi, several thousand people came out, and the groups of young people in masks, according to tradition, began to smash the shop windows and set fire to the car.
The authorities tried to act in the old fashioned way: here is the championship, but here are games. And these mechanisms no longer work. The basis of the old, classic Brazil breaks. But political institutions must correspond to another quality of life. "
Nevertheless, the Brazilian authorities are seriously configured to organize a holiday without any unrest. President Dilma Rowseff said that the Brazil government would not tolerate violence in any form. Speaking at the International Economic Forum in Davos, she assured that the country was ready to hold the "best mundial in the history of football."
Security issues now is a priority task for the Brazilian authorities. The government is not without reason that protests and especially armed conflicts in the immediate vicinity of the stadiums may not be the best to affect the attendance of the championship. It is expected that about 600 thousand foreign tourists will go to Brazil, but real figures may not be so optimistic.
Radical groups of protesters have already organized surveillance. According to some reports, local special services introduce their agents into these groups and control their electronic correspondence.
According to the authorities, the main instigators of the riots are members of the Black Blocs informal group operating in a number of large cities. It is to her that law enforcement agencies pay special attention.
In order to avoid unpleasant consequences, the prefect of Rio de Janeiro Eduard Pais declared a dry law around the Marakan stadium during the matches of the World Cup. The ban on the sale of alcohol on ten streets around the arena will come into force two hours before the start of the match and last two hours after the final whistle.
It is most surprising that with all budget expenses and related problems in strategically, the World Cup can have a small but beneficial effect on the Brazilian economy. Analysts of the Moody's International Rating Agency calculated that Brazil’s expenses for infrastructure account for 0.7% of the country's total investment plan for 2010-2014, but over the next ten years the mundial will add 0.4% to Brazil's GDP. According to the expert Moody's Barbara Mattos, the Brazilian economy is too large for a short -term football tournament, the costs of which are limited to 12 cities, have a significant impact on it.
On the other hand, the reputation of the country, including financial, depends on the successful holding of the championship. The success of the tournament will increase the status of Brazil in the world arena, and the excitement during matches, on the contrary, will spoil the image of the country.
The Minister of Sports of Brazil Aldu Rebel notes that thanks to the mundial, additional economic activity from 2010 to 2014 will amount to 112 billion reactions, moreover, infrastructure will be established in many cities.
However, it is safe to say that for people who speak under the slogan “there will be no world cup!”, The world championship is only a reason to remind the government of existing social and economic problems.
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The correspondent of the newspaper "Sport-Express" Evgeny Dzichkovsky reports that salary ceiling can be introduced in Russian football. The newspaper learned about this from the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs Dmitry Svishchev. Earlier, in support of this measure, the vice president of Dynamo Gennady Soloviev spoke out.
It is strange that for such an obvious reason only two people spoke out. There are so many money in our football that Russians no longer want to play abroad. And those who want, are not too needed there. In addition, this money is most often budget or state corporate. As a result, we have a set of minuses: high expenses for non -obvious goals and homegrown players isolated from the world, who are also well fed here. What to do?
It is clear that: artificially limit salaries growth. Moreover, neither with "artificially" nor with "limit" there are no problems: both concepts are now held in high esteem.
No, not so. There would be the will of “reais” with “Bavaria”, they would have long reduced the largest article of their expenses. And the "Basel" with "Copenhagen" too. And even "Vardars" with "workers", by golly. Everyone wants to get a lot, but no one wants to pay a lot: your own employer will confirm this to you. Why then do not European leagues cover themselves with a copper salary basin?
Yes, just because they are European, not American. And they need to compete not only within themselves, but also with each other.
Old World Championships are communicating vessels. The ceiling of salaries in one of them will turn it into an empty Soviet prodmag. Cream will leave, not those who agree to receive less will come here, but those who play football worse. If we introduce a high ceiling, equal to England or Spain, it will simply not limit anything. What is the meaning then in the ceiling?
This question, by the way, is good and in itself, in isolation from other things. What is the purpose of the proposed "circumcision"? So that the players get less? But this is regulated, fortunately, not a Duma, but a market. Clubs already do not want to pay football players: let them play at least for the dead. However, clubs want to win. What is achieved by appropriate qualifications and the cost of labor.
Maybe the goal is to protect the budget from football transference? But who said that state expenses within the ceiling of salaries are less immoral than its excess? And who will determine the threshold amount? And what - in rubles or SLE? And if inflation?
Sorry for budget money, Duma? Forbidden to invest them in professional clubs, and the ceiling of salaries will be formed by itself. For all teams, he will be different, but dictated by private risks and business, and not the "Wishlist" of officials. True, you will have to get up. Still, in the case, rather high spheres are involved, which are not so easy to ban anything.
Another question: why should the clubs earn money after introducing the ceiling? Well, they found sponsors, the stadiums were raped from their homeland, sold on a nuclear sum of scarves and sausages. Everything, they no longer need. The payback is achieved, you can’t pay above the norms to players, the flight phase is finished, boring life begins.
Of course, we are still very far from payback, but laws - they are for centuries, right?
Well, one more. Any of us will draw five to ten schemes on the move, explaining why the law on the ceiling of salaries will not work in Russia. For example, they told me about 17 million rubles spent on papers as material assistance. They received them in one of the budget clubs of the Premier League of the Premier Legion from the African country. And no ceiling in the future, of course, will not be abundant in the future.
And what will prevent the "Worde" just to give each other money from the payments? It is easy to put a star and an understudy on a maximum salary and oblige the second to pay the first bypassing all laws. And you can also pay the agent commission in the amount of the annual budget of the Komi Republic, so that later from this money it would be repaired by the whole team and judges at the same time. And to shower players with "Rols-Roossi" and "Bentley". Just like that, as a gift, since we have a strict ceiling. And also to receive for the treatment of non-poorly actually football players from the contributions from social insurance funds. And also ... yet ... yet ...
The picture could ennoble the obligatory opening of club budgets. Only this task is not on the shoulder. Firstly, clubs rest. Secondly, it is far from the fact that the open budget will be the way it really is. Thirdly, it is much easier to reduce the salary statements than to call for the reporting of football puppeteers standing behind the clubs.
But will it work, legislators, in the end, are not required to know.
* * *
Oleg Efimov, in the article on the site "Gazeta.ru" believes that the chances that St. Petersburg can accept the summer Olympics of 2024 have sharply decreased.
The American NBC Universal acquired the rights to broadcast games until 2032 for $ 7.65 billion, thereby ensuring the well -being of the International Olympic Committee for two decades ahead. It is believed that this factor will make an American application almost a favorite when choosing the capital of the 2024 Olympics.
Not only sanctions of the United States and the EU can make unrealizable plans for holding the 2024 summer games in St. Petersburg. The vast majority of the sponsors of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are transnational corporations that, due to the positions of Washington and Brussels regarding the events in Ukraine, would be a priori with wary of the desire of Russia to hold another Olympiad.
But now the chances of the Northern capital already decreasing before our eyes to reception of games 2024 have become very insignificant.
Actually, Petersburg and all other cities, whose authorities announced their intention to become the capital of the Olympics, are not officially candidates for playing the games: the acceptance of the IOC applications will begin only in 2015, and the venue for the 2024 summer Olympics will become known in 2017. However, many officials in Russia made it clear that the hometown of Vladimir Putin would seriously compete for the right to accept games in ten years.
"We have many infrastructure for the summer Olympiad, so you do not have to invest serious resources," said St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko in February.
“Petersburg can be a serious contender for the Olympic Games - 2024,” said the president of the Russian -Aleksander Zhukov Olympic Committee in November last year.
And although among other cities that declared the desire to accept the 2024 Olympics were Paris and Istanbul, Nairobi and Rome, Berlin and Taibay, it is believed that the main competitor of St. Petersburg, if the Russian application is still submitted, would become an American candidate.
By the way, the United States, by the way, is not yet determined which city is talking about: Dallas, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Washington or Los Angeles, where in 1984 the summer Olympiad was already held at the height of the Cold War, overshadowed by the boycott of the USSR and a number of friendly countries that reacted thus to the refusal of the American side and other states to participate In Moscow Games 1980.
Of course, the situation in the Western hemisphere, that is, more or less in one hour belt, is more profitable for an American broadcaster. So, for example, the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will watch American viewers where in large quantities than, say, games in Sochi.
More spectators - it means more income from advertising. In this sense, representatives of the NBC Universal do not hide that as a broadcaster who provides almost half of all the income of the IOC, would like to see one of the following Olympiads in the Western Hemisphere, and more specifically in their native country.
“We, of course, would be happy to hold games in the United States,” said NBC Universal, Mark Lazarus. “For our business, it would be just wonderful.” At the same time, he nevertheless noted that the multi -billion dollar contract concluded with the IOC without understanding the American side, in which city of the world this or that Olympiad will be held. ”
And if the parties to the agreement are forced to comply with at least some diplomacy, then the head of the US Olympic Committee Larry Probst made it clear that his interest in determining what particular American city will apply for the 2024 Olympics has grown repeatedly.
“We intend to draw up a short list [of the pretent cities] over the next few months. The final decision will be made before the end of the year,” he promised.
By the way, when the Olympics was awarded to Sochi in 2007, NBC Universal also had the rights to broadcast games in the United States, then, however, belonging to GE and Vivendi. But this happened in the context of a much more favorable mood for Russia both from the corporate world of the United States and the administration of George Bush Jr.-even before the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008.
Even before the aggravation of the situation in Ukraine - during the Olympics in Sochi - some on Russian television explained the offensive loss of Russian hockey players of the US national team, including by the fact that NBC Universal has a multi -billion dollar contract for the broadcast of the Olympiad and supposedly the American side did not pay such money to see the defeat of their national team.
The vast majority of hockey experts did not agree with this, but now, in a concluded between the NBC Universal and the International Olympic Committee, many will see a certain predeceity:
However, over the next decade, a lot can change in relations between the West and Russia, and therefore the victory of the city in which the President of the Russian Federation was born in the competition for the right to hold Olympiad 2024 cannot be completely excluded.
Conducting games in the northern capital would be a great gift to Putin, for which 2024 would be the last year of the presidency (if he went to the 2018 elections and win them). Unless, of course, the existing coordinate system at the moment will not be amended again, which is now quite difficult to predict.
Demonstrations in Brazil, which began last summer with protests against the unfair social policy and high expenses for organizing the World Cup, are increasingly developing into riots and clashes with the police. The last protest of the protest near the Arena Corinthians under construction in San Paulo, at which the opening match of the mundial should take place without the victims, but at the end of April, reports of victims of unrest were received with frightening frequency.
On April 28, demonstrators burned five buses in the Kosta-Barros region in the north of Rio, expressing dissatisfaction with the actions of police officers who killed a 17-year-old guy in a shootout with drug dealers in Favel Zhokai. According to the protesters, his death was not accidental.
On April 23, on the territory of the school in Favel Pavao-Pavaosin, the 26-year-old professional dancer Douglas Pereira was found dead. According to the relatives of the deceased, the police killed him, taking him as a drug courier, but the preliminary statement of the authorities says that "death could occur as a result of a fall."
The death of Pereweira became a catalyst for new folk unrest. The demonstrators blocked the streets of the main tourist district of the city, capacabans, built barricades from car tires and set them on fire. After the protests began to burn cars and attacked the police station.
Three days earlier, the residents of the slum of Karamuyo, outraged by the death of two young people, arranged for the riots: one young man died, crashing on a motorcycle into an armored police car, the other law enforcement officers killed the order with bandits.
During the action, the protesters barricaded several central streets, set fire to a truck, two cars and four buses.
Also, the inhabitants of the slum set fire to cars and in revenge for the death of the 72-year-old pensioner Arlinda Beserra Das Chagas.
Representatives of the authorities also suffer losses. Since the beginning of 2014, five police officers have died. Three months before the mundial of the authorities of Rio de Janeiro, the troops were introduced into the favela in order to prevent local gangs from taking control of the situation there, but the battles are still not stopping.Three months before the mundial of the authorities of Rio de Janeiro, the troops were introduced into the favela in order to prevent local gangs from taking control of the situation there, but the battles are not stopped until now
Local authorities assure that they will cope with these circumstances to the beginning of the world championship, but international observers are concerned about security problems in stadiums.
In addition, tourists and a number of national teams before the championship will have to drive past the rebellious Favel: the only road from the airport to the city center leads through the slums of the stump and Mare.
It all started in June 2013, when the government of San Paulo raised the prices for travel in public transport from 3 to 3.2 Real Madrid (the difference amounted to about 3 rubles). Throughout the country, people took to the streets, in total in protest, then more than 1 million people in 100 cities took part. In some of them, including Rio, the police had to use tear gas to disperse demonstrators.
The authorities quickly refused to increase prices, but the genie has already escaped from the bottle. Citizens remembered everything that prevented them from living over the past decades - a poor condition of schools, hospitals, roads, corruption and poor -quality police work.
Particular indignation was caused by budget expenses for the construction of facilities on the eve of the 2016 summer games and the World Cup, which will be held in 2014. Together, Brazil allocated $ 26 billion at these events.
In the city of Brazilia, the capital of the country, dozens of protesters passed by march past the buildings of Congress and the Supreme Court, and about 80 radicals tried to set fire to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, the remaining participants in the protest basically condemned manifestations of violence.
The number of victims in clashes with the police was calculated by hundreds, and two were killed. Unlike the current unrest in Faveli, then the Brazilian middle class was considered the main engine of protest.
President Dilma Roussuff tried to smooth out the situation, turning to the protesters and promising that she would spend more on education and healthcare, and $ 15 billion on the world championship will be shared by private companies, but she failed to finally cool the ardor of the demonstrators.
A new, less massive wave of protest against the cost of holding the championship was held in Brazil in January 2014. At the demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, San Paulo, Kuritib and Recyfi, several thousand people came out, and the groups of young people in masks, according to tradition, began to smash the shop windows and set fire to the car.
The authorities tried to act in the old fashioned way: here is the championship, but here are games. And these mechanisms no longer work. The basis of the old, classic Brazil breaks. But political institutions must correspond to another quality of life. "
Nevertheless, the Brazilian authorities are seriously configured to organize a holiday without any unrest. President Dilma Rowseff said that the Brazil government would not tolerate violence in any form. Speaking at the International Economic Forum in Davos, she assured that the country was ready to hold the "best mundial in the history of football."
Security issues now is a priority task for the Brazilian authorities. The government is not without reason that protests and especially armed conflicts in the immediate vicinity of the stadiums may not be the best to affect the attendance of the championship. It is expected that about 600 thousand foreign tourists will go to Brazil, but real figures may not be so optimistic.
Radical groups of protesters have already organized surveillance. According to some reports, local special services introduce their agents into these groups and control their electronic correspondence.
According to the authorities, the main instigators of the riots are members of the Black Blocs informal group operating in a number of large cities. It is to her that law enforcement agencies pay special attention.
In order to avoid unpleasant consequences, the prefect of Rio de Janeiro Eduard Pais declared a dry law around the Marakan stadium during the matches of the World Cup. The ban on the sale of alcohol on ten streets around the arena will come into force two hours before the start of the match and last two hours after the final whistle.
It is most surprising that with all budget expenses and related problems in strategically, the World Cup can have a small but beneficial effect on the Brazilian economy. Analysts of the Moody's International Rating Agency calculated that Brazil’s expenses for infrastructure account for 0.7% of the country's total investment plan for 2010-2014, but over the next ten years the mundial will add 0.4% to Brazil's GDP. According to the expert Moody's Barbara Mattos, the Brazilian economy is too large for a short -term football tournament, the costs of which are limited to 12 cities, have a significant impact on it.
On the other hand, the reputation of the country, including financial, depends on the successful holding of the championship. The success of the tournament will increase the status of Brazil in the world arena, and the excitement during matches, on the contrary, will spoil the image of the country.
The Minister of Sports of Brazil Aldu Rebel notes that thanks to the mundial, additional economic activity from 2010 to 2014 will amount to 112 billion reactions, moreover, infrastructure will be established in many cities.
However, it is safe to say that for people who speak under the slogan “there will be no world cup!”, The world championship is only a reason to remind the government of existing social and economic problems.
* * *
The correspondent of the newspaper "Sport-Express" Evgeny Dzichkovsky reports that salary ceiling can be introduced in Russian football. The newspaper learned about this from the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs Dmitry Svishchev. Earlier, in support of this measure, the vice president of Dynamo Gennady Soloviev spoke out.
It is strange that for such an obvious reason only two people spoke out. There are so many money in our football that Russians no longer want to play abroad. And those who want, are not too needed there. In addition, this money is most often budget or state corporate. As a result, we have a set of minuses: high expenses for non -obvious goals and homegrown players isolated from the world, who are also well fed here. What to do?
It is clear that: artificially limit salaries growth. Moreover, neither with "artificially" nor with "limit" there are no problems: both concepts are now held in high esteem.
First of all, for some reason, a joke about a soldier and a student who argued, who was smarter, is recalled. The decisive argument was the soldier's question: "If you are so smart, why are you not going to go?!" Our situation is inverse: we are going to go on Europe, and we are looking for a novelty. The local clubs, presumably, like to pay players more than they stand, get into debt, get into the stars and, in general, you know, not save. And in Russia they are used to counting every penny, everyone knows. “Real” with “Bavaria” will look at us and say: “Well done Russians, thought of it, but we didn’t know.” So?Maybe the goal is to protect the budget from football transference? But who said that state expenses within the ceiling of salaries are less immoral than its excess?
No, not so. There would be the will of “reais” with “Bavaria”, they would have long reduced the largest article of their expenses. And the "Basel" with "Copenhagen" too. And even "Vardars" with "workers", by golly. Everyone wants to get a lot, but no one wants to pay a lot: your own employer will confirm this to you. Why then do not European leagues cover themselves with a copper salary basin?
Yes, just because they are European, not American. And they need to compete not only within themselves, but also with each other.
Old World Championships are communicating vessels. The ceiling of salaries in one of them will turn it into an empty Soviet prodmag. Cream will leave, not those who agree to receive less will come here, but those who play football worse. If we introduce a high ceiling, equal to England or Spain, it will simply not limit anything. What is the meaning then in the ceiling?
This question, by the way, is good and in itself, in isolation from other things. What is the purpose of the proposed "circumcision"? So that the players get less? But this is regulated, fortunately, not a Duma, but a market. Clubs already do not want to pay football players: let them play at least for the dead. However, clubs want to win. What is achieved by appropriate qualifications and the cost of labor.
Maybe the goal is to protect the budget from football transference? But who said that state expenses within the ceiling of salaries are less immoral than its excess? And who will determine the threshold amount? And what - in rubles or SLE? And if inflation?
Sorry for budget money, Duma? Forbidden to invest them in professional clubs, and the ceiling of salaries will be formed by itself. For all teams, he will be different, but dictated by private risks and business, and not the "Wishlist" of officials. True, you will have to get up. Still, in the case, rather high spheres are involved, which are not so easy to ban anything.
Another question: why should the clubs earn money after introducing the ceiling? Well, they found sponsors, the stadiums were raped from their homeland, sold on a nuclear sum of scarves and sausages. Everything, they no longer need. The payback is achieved, you can’t pay above the norms to players, the flight phase is finished, boring life begins.
Of course, we are still very far from payback, but laws - they are for centuries, right?
Well, one more. Any of us will draw five to ten schemes on the move, explaining why the law on the ceiling of salaries will not work in Russia. For example, they told me about 17 million rubles spent on papers as material assistance. They received them in one of the budget clubs of the Premier League of the Premier Legion from the African country. And no ceiling in the future, of course, will not be abundant in the future.
And what will prevent the "Worde" just to give each other money from the payments? It is easy to put a star and an understudy on a maximum salary and oblige the second to pay the first bypassing all laws. And you can also pay the agent commission in the amount of the annual budget of the Komi Republic, so that later from this money it would be repaired by the whole team and judges at the same time. And to shower players with "Rols-Roossi" and "Bentley". Just like that, as a gift, since we have a strict ceiling. And also to receive for the treatment of non-poorly actually football players from the contributions from social insurance funds. And also ... yet ... yet ...
The picture could ennoble the obligatory opening of club budgets. Only this task is not on the shoulder. Firstly, clubs rest. Secondly, it is far from the fact that the open budget will be the way it really is. Thirdly, it is much easier to reduce the salary statements than to call for the reporting of football puppeteers standing behind the clubs.
But will it work, legislators, in the end, are not required to know.
* * *
Oleg Efimov, in the article on the site "Gazeta.ru" believes that the chances that St. Petersburg can accept the summer Olympics of 2024 have sharply decreased.
The American NBC Universal acquired the rights to broadcast games until 2032 for $ 7.65 billion, thereby ensuring the well -being of the International Olympic Committee for two decades ahead. It is believed that this factor will make an American application almost a favorite when choosing the capital of the 2024 Olympics.
Not only sanctions of the United States and the EU can make unrealizable plans for holding the 2024 summer games in St. Petersburg. The vast majority of the sponsors of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are transnational corporations that, due to the positions of Washington and Brussels regarding the events in Ukraine, would be a priori with wary of the desire of Russia to hold another Olympiad.
But now the chances of the Northern capital already decreasing before our eyes to reception of games 2024 have become very insignificant.
Actually, Petersburg and all other cities, whose authorities announced their intention to become the capital of the Olympics, are not officially candidates for playing the games: the acceptance of the IOC applications will begin only in 2015, and the venue for the 2024 summer Olympics will become known in 2017. However, many officials in Russia made it clear that the hometown of Vladimir Putin would seriously compete for the right to accept games in ten years.
"We have many infrastructure for the summer Olympiad, so you do not have to invest serious resources," said St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko in February.
“Petersburg can be a serious contender for the Olympic Games - 2024,” said the president of the Russian -Aleksander Zhukov Olympic Committee in November last year.
And although among other cities that declared the desire to accept the 2024 Olympics were Paris and Istanbul, Nairobi and Rome, Berlin and Taibay, it is believed that the main competitor of St. Petersburg, if the Russian application is still submitted, would become an American candidate.
By the way, the United States, by the way, is not yet determined which city is talking about: Dallas, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Washington or Los Angeles, where in 1984 the summer Olympiad was already held at the height of the Cold War, overshadowed by the boycott of the USSR and a number of friendly countries that reacted thus to the refusal of the American side and other states to participate In Moscow Games 1980.
And now the US chances for holding the 2024 Olympics, apparently, have increased significantly. NBC Universal, media division of the American Corporation Comcast, on Wednesday announced the acquisition of rights to broadcast games from 2022 to 2032. As a result, for six Olympiads that last a little more than two weeks, the International Olympic Committee will receive $ 7.65 billion. But the point is not even that the IOC bureaucracy has provided its well -being for many years to come.For six Olympiads that last a little more than two weeks, the International Olympic Committee will receive $ 7.65 billion.
Of course, the situation in the Western hemisphere, that is, more or less in one hour belt, is more profitable for an American broadcaster. So, for example, the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will watch American viewers where in large quantities than, say, games in Sochi.
More spectators - it means more income from advertising. In this sense, representatives of the NBC Universal do not hide that as a broadcaster who provides almost half of all the income of the IOC, would like to see one of the following Olympiads in the Western Hemisphere, and more specifically in their native country.
“We, of course, would be happy to hold games in the United States,” said NBC Universal, Mark Lazarus. “For our business, it would be just wonderful.” At the same time, he nevertheless noted that the multi -billion dollar contract concluded with the IOC without understanding the American side, in which city of the world this or that Olympiad will be held. ”
And if the parties to the agreement are forced to comply with at least some diplomacy, then the head of the US Olympic Committee Larry Probst made it clear that his interest in determining what particular American city will apply for the 2024 Olympics has grown repeatedly.
“We intend to draw up a short list [of the pretent cities] over the next few months. The final decision will be made before the end of the year,” he promised.
By the way, when the Olympics was awarded to Sochi in 2007, NBC Universal also had the rights to broadcast games in the United States, then, however, belonging to GE and Vivendi. But this happened in the context of a much more favorable mood for Russia both from the corporate world of the United States and the administration of George Bush Jr.-even before the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008.
Even before the aggravation of the situation in Ukraine - during the Olympics in Sochi - some on Russian television explained the offensive loss of Russian hockey players of the US national team, including by the fact that NBC Universal has a multi -billion dollar contract for the broadcast of the Olympiad and supposedly the American side did not pay such money to see the defeat of their national team.
The vast majority of hockey experts did not agree with this, but now, in a concluded between the NBC Universal and the International Olympic Committee, many will see a certain predeceity:
However, over the next decade, a lot can change in relations between the West and Russia, and therefore the victory of the city in which the President of the Russian Federation was born in the competition for the right to hold Olympiad 2024 cannot be completely excluded.
Conducting games in the northern capital would be a great gift to Putin, for which 2024 would be the last year of the presidency (if he went to the 2018 elections and win them). Unless, of course, the existing coordinate system at the moment will not be amended again, which is now quite difficult to predict.