Suggestions to the bigwigs at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have a way of not going down very well.
In the prelude to the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, as part of the tussle to avoid a boycott of the Games due to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, the US president Jimmy Carter proffered the idea of locating the games in Athens – neutral territory and historically significant as the ancient home of the Olympic Games.
