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TheSmiggin Holes 2010 Winter Olympic bid was a joke campaign initiated byAustralian comediansRoy and HG to bring the2010 Winter Olympics to the tiny and little-known village ofSmiggin Holes, part of thePerisher Valley ski resort, inNew South Wales,Australia. The bid was first proposed on the television showThe Ice Dream, which aired as part of theSeven Network's coverage of the2002 Winter Olympics inSalt Lake City.[1]
During the course ofThe Ice Dream's broadcast, a number of suggestions were presented by the hosts to the audience in order to make the holding of the Winter Games possible at Smiggin. For example, in order to provide a tall enough mountain for skiing events, Roy and HG proposed that eitherMount Kosciuszko be raised 300 metres (from its current height of 2,228 metres), or that a new mountain be built in Smiggin itself, which would be named Mount Steggall, after AustralianNagano slalom bronze medalistZali Steggall. "We've just got to get the nation to dump all its rubbish on top of Kosciuszko, compact it a bit and voila, Mount Steggall."
In addition, the duo suggested that the caravan park could be used as the athletes' village, and local portable toilet business Dougie Does Dunnies promised the cleanest Olympic Games ever as far as toilets were concerned. TheCoomaKFC would provide catering for the event. The duo also suggested that theBiathlon would "have live targets, something that will make a noise when it's hit". Roy also said that "we can have a kangaroo cull. God we're going to have fun."
Mottos for the Smiggin Holes 2010 bid included "Unleash the Mighty Mongrel of the Holes", "Winter Wonder Down Under" and "If you've got the poles, we've got the holes." Appearing onThe Ice Dream,International Olympic Committee presidentJacques Rogge described the bid film as "very impressive".
After the disappointment of being pushed out byVancouver for 2010, HG Nelson stated in a June 2009 podcast that "I think 2014 is not beyond us, and we're still marking it under the slogan, 'If you've got the poles, we've got the holes.'"Sochi has since hosted the2014 Winter Games.