08-22-2016, 02:18 PM
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by Frequitude
Source?
(not in a dickish way, I'm genuinely interested in learning more)
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I heard it discussed on TV this weekend, the latest report I saw was about 15 billion US
https://www.rt.com/sport/326713-2020...lympics-japan/
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08-22-2016, 02:26 PM
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#22
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Quote:
Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Isn't Sochi in Europe?
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Nobody wanted to go to Sochi, just like nobody wants to go to Russia for the 2018 World Cup. So the likeable part of Europe hasn't hosted in a while.
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08-22-2016, 03:45 PM
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#23
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Apartment 5A
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I'm curious if Phelps will get another DUI that everyone just pretends never happened.
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08-22-2016, 03:57 PM
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#24
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KelVarnsen
I'm curious if Phelps will get another DUI that everyone just pretends never happened.
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It's just as it is in the NFL, perform at a high level and you can literally kill people and go to the Hall of Fame. Perform like Ryan Lochte and you're a pariah.
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08-22-2016, 04:00 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
It's just as it is in the NFL, perform at a high level and you can literally kill people and go to the Hall of Fame. Perform like Ryan Lochte and you're a pariah.
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Ryan Lochte has 12 Olympic medals. I guess somewhere between 12 and 28 Olympic medals is the pariah cutoff.
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08-22-2016, 04:06 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Phelps has more individual golds than Lochte has total medals. I said a high level, only 2 individual golds is not a high level, certainly not high enough to act like the clown he has. Phelps can smoke weed and DUI as much as he wants because he's that much better than Lochte.
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08-22-2016, 05:07 PM
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#27
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: 555 Saddledome Rise SE
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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Ah, you're talking Summer Olympics costs. I would suggest that Winter Olympics cost far far less than Summer Olympics (I think its safe to ignore Socchi).
Vancouver for example cost about $6.4B, of which about $2.5B went to transportation upgrades and $900M to a new convention centre.
Yes, my source is Wikipedia.
I would suggest that a Calgary Winter Olympics would cost well under $5B.
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08-22-2016, 05:50 PM
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#28
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Frequitude
I wonder how many years ahead of schedule Japan will be on constructing everything. I'd bet at least a year.
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Japan is hosting the Rugby World Cup in 2019 (September/October) and I would assume that at least some of the venues are going to be used for that. Its quite remarkable to host a major event like the RWC and then the Olympics 10-11 months later!
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08-22-2016, 06:10 PM
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#29
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: 555 Saddledome Rise SE
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When you figure out how or build such an advanced society with so few sovereign resources, Japan hosting the Olympics is on par with me preparing a Thanksgiving dinner.
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08-25-2016, 12:15 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Pitt Meadows
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I have no idea if it's possible at all and if it's just them talking her up, but apparently my cousins daughter is one of the best long/triple jumpers in the province(BC) and went to some pre-Olympic trials and did really well. She's going to UBC in the fall on a track and field scholarship.
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08-26-2016, 09:20 AM
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#31
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So Calgary 2026 confirmed. But when will Calgary host the Summer Olympics? That would be awesome.
Toronto and Vancouver would be so jelly.
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08-26-2016, 09:28 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Gary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CroFlames
So Calgary 2026 confirmed. But when will Calgary host the Summer Olympics? That would be awesome.
Toronto and Vancouver would be so jelly.
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Not really...it's so much bigger than the Winter Olympics, so much more expensive to run, and the facilities so much bigger and expensive to build. If there's only a slim case to made to break even on a Winter Olympics, then how do you logically support a Summer bid?
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08-26-2016, 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Mazrim
Not really...it's so much bigger than the Winter Olympics, so much more expensive to run, and the facilities so much bigger and expensive to build. If there's only a slim case to made to break even on a Winter Olympics, then how do you logically support a Summer bid?
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Because it's cool?
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08-27-2016, 10:31 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hockey
I have no idea if it's possible at all and if it's just them talking her up, but apparently my cousins daughter is one of the best long/triple jumpers in the province(BC) and went to some pre-Olympic trials and did really well. She's going to UBC in the fall on a track and field scholarship.
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What's her name?
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08-27-2016, 10:45 PM
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#35
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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Kiana Bekar
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08-28-2016, 09:21 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Oh very cool!
I remember seeing her jump at trials.
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08-28-2016, 05:26 PM
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#37
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Pitt Meadows
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Quote:
Originally Posted by craigwd
Oh very cool!
I remember seeing her jump at trials.
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Oh Ya? Any good?
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08-29-2016, 08:38 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I don't recall a lot of specifics since I'm more focused on the Senior events but I do remember she won the silver medal in the Junior Triple Jump.
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08-30-2016, 08:43 AM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Calgary...Alberta, Canada
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Trying to talk the wife into planning a family vacation to Tokyo 2020. I've always wanted to see Japan, and it would be a good reason to go, if a little crowded.
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08-30-2016, 09:52 AM
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Apparently Damian Warner is one of the laziest people around! Maybe I can become an Olympic athlete!
(Jokingly of course, but a really close friend knows him very well and calls him extremely lazy haha)
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