what if Detroit hosted the olympics games of 1968?

It's been a very long while then I didn't started a thread here, I'm sorry for the inconvience :eek:

I spotted this old promotionnal movie of Detroit for the 1968 games http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9uWSNbHEps

In OTL, Detroit lost against Mexico City to host the 1968 olympics games.
But what if Detroit won the bid? What'll be the alternate repercussions in the ATL? Does the riots of 1967 would had happened later? Does would had butterflied the chance of Coleman A. Young to be mayor of Detroit?
 
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It's been a very long while then I didn't started a thread here, I'm sorry for the inconvience :eek:

I spotted this old promotionnal movie of Detroit for the 1968 games http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9uWSNbHEps

In OTL, Detroit lost against Mexico City to host the 1968 olympics games.
But what if Detroit won the bid? What'll be the alternate repercussions in the ATL? Does the riots of 1967 would had happened later? Does would had butterflied the chance of Coleman A. Young to be mayor of Detroit?

This was the Olympic Games that the City of Portland was bidding on as well. As part of their Olympic facilities, they would have built a new stadium that would have lured an NFL and/or MLB team.

If Detroit got the games that year, that would have been one heck of a year for them with the Olympics and the World Series, provided that the Olympic Games don't affect the Tigers too much.
 
The olympics would have given Detroit a lot of construction jobs, but I'm not sure it would have been enough to stop the 1967 Riots entirely. Perhaps, it would have postponed them until April 1968, when Dr. King was assassinated -- which, for the Olympics, would actually be a worse time to have the riots than in OTL, and could have provoked a gruesome over-reaction by authorities.
 
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