Oh FFS, not this again!
What you class as MTBing (a Sunday pootle round a trail centre carrying the kitchen sink on your back, stopping at the top and bottom of every hill to faff with seatposts and suspension and chat about how radcore you were on that last boom gnarly drop) is nowhere close to Olympic XC MTB.
Venues have to be within strict guidelines: between x and y in length, a certain amount of climbing per lap, so many technical features because it has to be repeatable at different Olympic venues, the same as any other sport. You wouldn’t ask the swimmers or rowers or runners to make do with a non-standard facility.
The venue also has to be closed off completely in the run up to the event so it can be bedded in, the test events can be run – I can imagine you’d all be really happy if Dalby or any other trail centre was closed for 2 years in the run up to it…
And it has to be able to accommodate tens of thousands of media/spectators and look good on TV. And be close to London what with it being the LONDON Olympics.
So if you can do better, go and offer your services to Seb Coe. And if you can even ride the course, no dabs at half the speed the Olympic guys will be doing it, you should be racing Elite. Even some of the current crop of Olympic riders were thinking twice about various sections of that course, it’s WAY tougher than any trail centre.