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Home to the 4th largest business technology hub in the United States, as well as the largest upscale mall between New York and Chicago - Somerset Collection - Metro Detroit's City of Troy was ranked one of the top ten (10) family-friendly cities in the USA.  More than 80 languages are spoken here. The city is the most populous city in Oakland County. Oakland County has more than 1,000 lakes and borders Wayne County with its world class airport and its world class sports venues. One of the first NFL Super Bowls hosted in a domed facility was hosted in Oakland County, which was also home to the world's first indoor World Cup soccer tournaments in Pontiac, the Oakland County seat of government.

SNAPSHOT OF A TROY / DETROIT CIRCLE TOUR

Each year, Metro Detroit hosts academic dignitaries and elite athletes from around the world. Below is a tour description narrative with several amazing facts. The tour is modeled on one offered Fulbright scholars and fellows from Europe, Latin America, and Africa, by a host family that represented on the Detroit United Olympic Organizing Committee. Did you know that the Atlanta 1996 Olympics Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games was founded by eight (8) Georgia families and Ambassador Mayor Andrew Young? Ambassador (Mayor) Andrew Young said in 2012, "Detroit would be a "great city to host the Olympics." The Olympics pay for themselves in the USA if you know how the money flows, he added. It took a 30 minute phone call for him to explain that to a Michigan Fulbright to the United Kingdom in 2012 who co-founded the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games known as the Detroit United Olympic Organizing Committee in 2013.

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The Troy Skywalk / Detroit Monorail Circle Tour begins with a walking tour from the home of the President of Somerset North sub through a pedestrian walkway to the Macy's entrance of Somerset Collection. The Somerset mall's 200 upscale stores are accented by atriums, five (5) fountains and great restaurants linked by the moving Skywalk over the Korean War Veterans Memorial Parkway, also known as Big Beaver Road.  From Somerset, you continue past the monumental Bank of America fountain by car. If you depart from the moving Skywalk in Troy's Golden Corridor by car for the circle tour, you pass Troy Sports Center and Automation Alley, Detroit's Silicone Valley-type or Silicone Alley-type technology hub. 

You will enter Macomb County via the Veterans parkway, also known as Metropolitan Parkway near the U.S. Army TACOM Command Center. Macomb County includes the sprawling defense corridor, and the General Motors Tech Center. Only one national guard base was capable of intercepting the 9/11 flight that was stopped from returning to the East Coast in September 2001. It dispatched jets from Macomb's Selfridge Air National Guard base but did not need to take out the hijacked plane thanks to the heroism of the plane's passengers over Pennsylvania.  

Sport is pervasive in Metro Detroit. On Metro Parkway in Sterling Heights you pass a church that provides the fields for  1,000 youth soccer players. Macomb County greets sports travelers from around the Nation to boat and fish in the international waterway of Lake St. Clair, sometimes referred to as the sixth Great Lake due to its size. The lake was named in honor of Saint Clair who served under the late Saint Francis of Assisi. Macomb's St. Clair Shores has one of the highest percentages of boats per capita in the United States with residential canals near Nautical Mile replacing what would otherwise be easements or alleys in older communities in the USA.

Traveling from Macomb County's Jefferson Avenue and Nautical Mile area into Wayne County, one passes the gate house of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House on Lake St. Clair. The gate house is larger than many homes. Continuing along one of the Nation's most beautiful residential roads, Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe views of Canada appear across the water on the horizon as one enters the Coastal Business District. As one passes multi-million dollar waterfront mansions, you pass to Detroit. Jefferson Ave. modern FiatChrysler plant manufactures Jeeps on the right near major Detroit Water Department facilities that provide water to more than 4 million people daily. Detroit's Gabrielle Richard Park graces the entrance to Belle Isle State Park. The world's largest urban island park - three times the size of New York's Central Park - has an eight (8) mile long ring road with a monumental marble fountain with city skyline view of two nations. 

Detroit's world class riverwalk aka promenade east of the MacArthur Bridge ends and materializes again to the west at RiverPlace, home to the first U.S. Patent & Trademark Office established outside of the D.C. area. The riverwalk, where you can also rent a bike, continues uninterrupted for nearly four (4) miles past various marinas and downtown Detroit landmarks.  The Nation's oldest continuously operating boat club is not far from the Detroit Yacht Club on Belle Isle, the world's largest urban island park over 900 acres, which has many playing fields, casino building, zoo and botanical gardens. The riverwalk continues past the vehicle tunnel to Canada to what is believed to be the world's longest international suspension bridge, the Ambassador Bridge.

Your circle tour continues with a ride on a monorail-like train called the Detroit People Mover with a 15-minute circle tour of Downtown. Beneath the western hemisphere's tallest hotel at GM world headquarters, there is winter garden with a plaza overlooking Canada and a plaza engraved with a map of the world with recessed spotlights at automation tech hubs. From Jefferson Avenue, the Q-Line street car takes you up Woodward Avenue past the sports and entertainment District Detroit. In 2015, Detroit was ranked as the second best city for sports fans in the USA after D.C. Little Ceasar's Arena, the world's fifth busiest building opened in 2017 making Detroit the most "walkable" for fans at all major sports venues within walking distance - NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHA. In 2018, a bid for a new MLS franchise was pending. 

After the Q-Line street car stop at New Center, you can walk the pedestrian bridges and a pedestrian subway link the golden topped Fisher Building & Theatre with New Center 1 mall / atrium linked with one of the largest office buildings in the Midwest, Cadillac Place. You can ride from New Center's train station to Chicago or take the Q-Line back to Midtown with a view of the Midwest USA's only branch of the National Institutes of Health, the university with the largest single campus U.S. medical school, and the renowned Detroit Institute of Arts with over 80 galleries. 

If you carry a U.S. passport, you may see the best views of Detroit from Windsor, Canada or from river cruises taking you past the skylines of both countries starting in U.S. waters and circling back through Canadian waters. As long as you don't step on the land in the other country, it's legal. Visitors who carry a U.S. passport can lunch or see a show at Ceasars Windsor - or enjoy one of the storied Detroit theaters.  

The Rest of the Story

There are 10 Michigan counties in Southeast Michigan, which is adjacent to Northwest Ohio's Toledo area that is populated by nearly one million persons and Canada's Essex County area populated by around 500,000 persons.  Thousands of sports travelers come to Detroit from Canada and various U.S. states on a near daily basis depending on the season or the sport or both. 

Athletes come from more than 40 nations each year for the world's only international marathon with an underwater mile at the tunnel of Detroit/Windsor.  The epitome of a local international community, Metro Detroit bid more times to host the Olympics than any other U.S. city in the past 100 years - seven (7) times. The only city chosen 1st runner up in two (2) consecutive International Olympic Committee host city decisions for the 1964 and 1968 Olympics, Detroit's people are happy to live, work and host elite athletes and other dignitaries in our dynamic world of increasingly interdependent communities. 

Michigan is home to the largest sports stadium in America. The third largest stadium in the world is in Ann Arbor, the city where the most decorated Olympian in history, Michael Phelps, trained. In 2015, the nation's top sports city for fans was Washington, D.C. Detroit was ranked 2nd after D.C. The region's Pure Michigan travel campaign  touts the state's 3000 miles of freshwater coastline and 10,000 lakes. Translated into English, the state motto reads, "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you."

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A World Motorsports Games Competition? 

Could world motorsport athletes attract an ever-increasing global TV audience with an innovative competition by air, land and water? Mixed sport elite athletes could embrace customized World Victory Games of motorsport linking Olympians, Paralympian, or stand alone being set up with other elite world athletes of various sports demonstrating their ability to team up with qualified motorsports athletes? Competing teams could use identical host nation-provided technology for 5 teams chosen at random from among pools of randomly mixed international athletes regardless of geography, regardless of their national affiliation, competing for 5 medals in 3 to 15 motorsports competitions on behalf of 5 regions of the world: the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Oceana. A linked or separate organizing committee might host such supplemental global Games funded with supplemental global TV sponsors diversifying funding for Olympism with a surplus for pubic benefit a week between Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

Separate from or along with Olympics Games, in a world motorsports first, all 5 world region teams could compete and be recognized in Pace Cars at the annual Woodward Dream Cruise, the  world's largest single-day automotive event commonly on an August Saturday with more than than 1,000,000 spectators who could cheer on Honorary Guest athletes escorted in Pace Cars down Woodward Avenue, thousands receiving a standing ovation along the 25-mile long boulevard route of the Dream Cruise propelling the Olympism forward locally and globally. 

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PROPOSED TEAM USA-DUOOC "OLYMPIC READINESS" -- TOP 10 I

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2018

2026 Comment 1 of 2: The Blog Top 10 below proposed a compromise to secure the southern border in preparation for LA 2028. This could help potentially eligible undocumented non-violent migrants—already in the vicinity of LA 2028 and nationwide—to become vetting-ready. Those who qualify can receive favorable action from Customs and Border Protection in non-violent cases and pursue immediate return to the USA after a quick boat cruise through the nearest Canadian waters without the need for a Canadian visa on their side of the boundary waters. The Top 10 actions were written years before much of the new wall, during a time when palisade fencing was another security option in the wall debate. This also predates the 2025 US Government decision to grant $1,000 to undocumented migrants who self-deport. This amount could cover the cost of supervised self-help, rapid returns to and from the Port of Detroit. Regional Detroit has enough boat and hotel capacity to process millions of scheduled cruise guests. The process requires migrants to be willing to assimilate into American society and the US Olympic movement by taking at least one new action.

2026 Comment 2 of 2:  Executive Summary of Olympic Readiness Top 10 — This proposal suggests that Team USA's Readiness calls for a Compromise that is an ideal pathway for the US to enhance readiness to welcome the youth of the world to the Games by first organizing lawful, rapid, public-private migrant self-help boat cruises. These would, for example, last 5 to 10 minutes from Detroit through Canadian boundary waters, returning to the Detroit port to become vetting-ready for Customs. Detroit has capacity for 40,000 hotel rooms, supporting quick, easy, federally funded 'self-deportations' with immediate return for the pre-approved to be vetted at the port. While Toledo, Niagara Falls, and Seattle could also participate, only Niagara Falls and Detroit are very close to Canadian waters, saving time and money. Participation would be scheduled for millions of non-violent undocumented immigrants in the US, if they are willing to assimilate in America and take at least one action toward adopting American ways, including Olympism as a way of life, aiming to make the Olympics in the US better for everyone.

 Top 10 List, A USA Compromise, Olympism Defined

1. A noble endeavor, the suggested Team USA Compromise here can improve readiness for US-based Olympics with the Olympic ideals. Olympics.org defines Olympism as "a philosophy of life exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will, and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles." 

2. The compromise is designed to protect humanity and human rights as well as safety. 

3.  To go around a perceived impasse to the issue, the compromise uses more agreeable terminology - palisade(s) - linked with the joy of effort, to prepare for the Olympics, including 4 million immigrants in Greater LA and 8.1 million others who can help the USA through self-help.

4. The joy found in effort opens the door for 12 million, lawful, self-help re-entries of previously undocumented immigrant residents, via pre-approved U.S.-Canada boundary water cruises, to satisfy a Customs pre-requisite for proper screening. For the first time, the 12 million immigrant U.S. residents could help themselves, and communities across America, by traveling, at their own expense and pace, preferably in next five (5) years, to four (4) Northern ports for DHS and university supervised international boundary water boat trips, lasting just minutes, to qualify for proof of a required lawful re-entry. 

5. This bold action will promote hope for Citizens who are ready to rise, realize their dreams, and increase understanding and cooperation across America, including with more than four (4) million immigrants in the LA region present, joining together for the LA 2028 Olympic Games.  

6. If public-private-non-profit partners collaborate, the Troy, Michigan-based university-affiliated Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (OCOG) could participate in forming new training of the youth of the Americas at three (3) high tech multi-state, private and public micro-campuses - made by students under supervision - in, Michigan and California - offering scholarly streamlined degrees and apprenticeships, for early college bachelor's degrees for dually enrolled 6-12 Title I and magnet school students. University I, II, III, etc. will pioneer optional Oxbridge-style tutorials yet with open innovation and fitness training in synergy with the philosophy of Olympism so degree graduates finish ahead of where they otherwise would be with or without current and future challenges -- along with improved training in every region of the 50 states within 6 years.

7. This will be a victory for the United States and the Olympic movement. 

8. The proposed compromise not only uses natural and other palisades with a proven track record of success at many college campuses and venues, but also offers geographically astute ports to remove a barrier for 12 million USA, adult and child, previously undocumented immigrant residents, so they can complete a strictly cruise-based quick U.S. lawful exit and re-entry for Customs. 

9. Open-gated palisades safely welcomed youth of the world to Olympic villages and other places, for world class athletic competition and academic training. 

10. "The Team USA Compromise is a great advancement. For four (4) Northern port of entry cities - and for the 2028 Olympic host city community, that is regarded as the epicenter of the previously undocumented immigrant resident community served by the compromise, this innovation will be -- in the words of Winston Churchill -- 'not a seat but a springboard.' - " reproduced verbatim, as stated by Victoria E. Harper and Jasmine R. Harper, sister college athletes of the lineage of the late U.S. Civil War Gen. Wm. Tecumseh Sherman, and Roger Sherman who proposed the Connecticut Compromise to create the bicameral form of the legislative branch of the United States government.

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OLYMPISM, AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM, AND A BOLD PROPOSED USA COMPROMISE COULD PROMOTE READINESS FOR GAMES AND AMERICA TODAY

2019 - Updated 2020 to 2026

The critical unmet U.S. needs for two types of capital allocations - human capital and palisades fencing capital - are met by the Unofficial Team USA Compromise for US-based Summer Olympics readiness that provides an easy solution to a federal budget funding issue. The compromise simply calls for a bifurcated allocation -- namely, a federal Southern border palisade capital authorization contemporaneous with a federal self-help human capital authorization enabling 12 million undocumented immigrant lawful self-help re-entries via quick U.S.-Canada boundary water trips. Millions who were previously undocumented travelers may be ready and qualified by "NICE" (New ICE/CBP Express) to be vetted by Customs ("Vetting-Ready"), as they disembark from cruises lasting just minutes at 4 U.S. ports. The immigrant residents must pay their own way to their scheduled cruises with communities across the Nation benefitting. Millions of qualified immigrants and Citizens can fully participate together for the first time in welcoming the youth of the world to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and propel America forward on a new trajectory of growth.

 

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MORE ABOUT THE ULTIMATE COMPROMISE FOR OLYMPIC READINESS AND SUCCESS

2018

An Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (OCOG) since 2013, the Detroit United Olympic Organizing Committee, proposes a way around the perceived federal funding impasse to get to the issue with an unofficial Team USA Compromise for aspiring Americans who quality to become vetting ready through self-determination helpful to the general public prior US-based Olympics. That is, with the joy discovered in an effort to use:

 a) natural and other palisade(s) to permanently meet the critical unmet humane border security needs, and b) a NICE policy to enable DHS or university institute partners to make 12 million undocumented immigrants Vetting-Ready through a self-help initiative in which they would pay their own way. Vetting-Ready means eligible for Customs screening after a quick self-help boundary water boat ride. The supervised, strictly cruise-based boat trips, including exits and re-entries from ports at Detroit, Niagara Falls, Toledo, and Seattle, would last minutes.   

The self-help resident immigrant initiative, referred to as U.S. Rapid Advanced Program Of Re-Entry (RAPORE) proposed by the organizations signing onto an open letter to U.S. leaders will open the portal for millions of current residents who would otherwise be excluded by Customs. RAPORE fulfills a Customs prerequisite for screening by removing a barrier for the completion of legal and proper vetting for immigrants. For the first time, 12 million immigrants who qualify can join the USA in welcoming the youth of the world to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. LA 2028 can be the most successful Olympic Games ever. The Team USA Compromise unites the USA with the Olympic spirit that will ensure a safe passage through – in the words of the Statue of Liberty – “the Golden Door.” 

If Government authorities approve the concept endorsed a community organizer, the writer of the Blog for an Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, subject to modification by or approval of new proposed bold leadership of 8 prominent Michigan families as was done with 8 Georgia families who oversaw Atlanta 1996 and were advised by Ambassador and former Atlanta, GA, Mayor Andrew Young alternating with former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, the initiative will serve the public weal with joy in the effort of the federal charge to promote self-determination with care and excellence for hundreds of US communities nationwide on transitional mostly interstate journeys to key ports on northern boundary waters by 12 million immigrant residents who are potentially eligible.