Five rings to rule them all.

• Author: Goodell, Brett
• Position: Letters - Letter to the Editor

I agree that we should keep the Olympics in the same location, or at least in a limited number of locations ("Movable Feat" by Christina Larson, July/August). Reducing the number of sites would make it more cost effective, so that it might actually be possible to turn a profit. Instead of building new Olympic complexes every two years in different locations, once the limited set of state-of-the-art facilities are built, they would just need to be maintained and possibly upgraded. Security would also be easier to manage.

Brett Goodell

Frederick, Md.

I enjoyed your article on the Olympics. As a lifetime sports fan, I sympathize with the argument (particularly your tennis analogy) that if the games were stationary, it would offer the chance for the planners to perfect them. A further argument that you didn't mention was the...