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Originally Posted by North East Goon
My apologies, I am one Canadian who is very proud to have these games in Canada, my argument was strictly from a financial standpoint these games should be in Calgary, it seems like such a waste of money spending on all this new infrastructure an hour flight away from a center that has this in place.
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The olympics are a bidding war, unless no one wants them (the LA games) then the bid is essentially given to the city/country that promises to spend the most, both on facilities and the requisite coke, hookers and wads of cash for the IOC officials.
There is no cheap way of doing it as the cost of the previous games justifies the higher cost of the next one and also justifies the vast sums of money the IOC keeps for itself, essentially 'we need the money as the games are so expensive'.