# Raleigh Stadium/Arena/Sports Discussions **URL:** \ **Category:** The Pub\ **Created:** [June 20, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/raleigh-stadium-arena-sports-discussions/299 "2018-06-20T13:37:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2819
**Author:** ![keita](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/keita/32/354_2.png) [@keita](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/keita)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 3:52am UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/raleigh-stadium-arena-sports-discussions/299/2819 "2022-02-25T03:52:48Z")
As much as the idea of us hosting the Olympics seems cool, I don’t want our region to be stuck with overly expensive and oversized venues that are hard to reuse -especially if the specs of those developments dictated by the IOC’s unnecessary extravagance, and the logistics will be controlled by NBC’s whims (surely this is common sense by now and I don’t need to cite it, right…). I’m supportive of the Olympic movement, but not the cronyism behind it -and I _ **especially** _ don’t want the Triangle to become yet another victim. You might want to take a look at [the thread about our bid for the World University Games in 2027](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/rtps-bid-for-the-2027-world-university-games/2483), which might give you a nearer-term look at how we’d stack up. There’s also [a whole section for threads](https://community.dtraleigh.com/c/transit-transportation/7) on transit and transportation where we’re talking about RUSbus, upcoming BRT and rail projects, and the limitations of them all (mainly due to lack of money and local risk aversion). --- _[View the full topic](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/raleigh-stadium-arena-sports-discussions/299)._