Seems unfair to the pegasi that earth and unicorn only get to host. They would have ways to get them up, as said, in airships and balloons, host it on a high plateau.  
Earth and Unicorn pony are just racist it seems.

Once the actual Equestrian Games episode is seen, I almost half believe that pegasi are the only attenders. Considering we only ever see two events. Barely.

Because they’re racist fucks, that’s why.

maybe they have tourism packages for non-pegasi that include the “don’t fall to your doom like rarity did” spell.

And you can’t just spam cloud-walking spells - does anyone know how many people on average attend these games?

Who says it’s going to be on the clouds?
 
They could have a high-up plateau like The Wonderbolts Academy did.

Well, they could have the non-pegasi audience watching the competition from airships and ballons.

Hurray for unfairness!

“They were basically asking for only pegasi to attend”
 
That was probably the point.

According to the Crystal Heart Spell book, Cloudsdale is located over a park, which could presumably have been used to hold the games. Maybe even have all the pegasi push the city down to fog level so that non-pegasi could visit and tour the city without needing complicated spells.

It would’ve been better if they had hosted it in Los Pegasus. That place appears to be half mountain/hills and half cloud city, at a lower altitude.

@Mattatatta  
What is the point of letting a city host the games if no-one visiting is gets to see the city itself? The purpose of things like the Olympics is that they are an exchange of culture– a chance to let people from every part of the world (or in this case, Equestria) come together in one place, and for a city to show what makes it special.
 
If they had to build the arena on the ground because no-one can actually go to the city, then that would defeat the purpose of letting Cloudsdale host the games in the first place. No matter how you look at it, it was an awful idea.

@Mattatatta  
They probably had zoning restrictions. There may be environmental or societal reasons why Cloudsdale floats above an empty plain.

All of you pegasuses are racist!

Wow. Nobody acknowledged my comment. I guess they’re too busy arguing with each other.

@Trickquestion  
It’s just a cartoon anyways. Everything will be fine. It because they could get away with things like this in animation is what makes it appealing. Common sense is something you develop in life. If you have it, then you should know is real and what is not.

Everything in Pegasi buildings would fall down if they couldn’t build solid surfaces in the sky. Cloudsdale could have hosted the games.

@Background Pony  
There is a difference between telling children to never fight back and leaving them completely unattended in an area they could easily die in. In fact, those sound like two totally different things.

@Trickquestion  
Over protectiveness will man kind’s downfall. Look at all the BS paranoia in the 21st century. Kids don’t know how to fend for themselves anymore. Back in our parents’ and grandparents’ days, they were were taught to Stand up against bullies rather than being complete cowards.

@Trickquestion  
Except that the Spartans, unlike the pegasi, sucked utter ass. Check the real life section.

@bboifatz  
They weren’t hosting a Equestrian wide game at that time. So there weren’t too many unicorns there.
 
@Trickquestion  
I’m pretty sure Equestria is a wealthy nation. Being able to host a game up in a cloud city is a good thing to the Equestrian national pride.

@bboifatz  
Good. Their stupid honor bound overconfidence will get their society destroyed.

@Trickquestion  
The Pegasi are basically the Spartans of Equestria.

What if Cloudsdale were going to build the facilities on the ground, underneath the city?

@bboifatz  
You know, to this day that bloody flight school still ticks me off. Why does it have no lifeguards, no guard rails, nothing to keep the children from dying? The whole purpose of the place is to teach children how to not splatter their organs all over the countryside. If someone has to be taught something, it’s a fair rationalization to say they can’t do it. They should have been watching those children likes hawks to keep from happening exactly what happened! Pegasi are freaking assholes, man.
 
I bet the reason Fluttershy dosen’t have to have a job is because she’s still collecting money after sueing that place into Oblivion.