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Hack&Lube · 06-09-2010, 02:48 AM

No, it'd be a complete waste of time and taxpayer money to even formulate a bid.

Any 88 games specific infrastructure that we still have would be totally half a century out of date by the time enough time has even possibly passed for this even to be considered a 1% possibility.

No Winter Olympics site has ever repeated in the modern era from a successful bid.

The only time a site hosted twice in the modern era was Innusbruck because after Denver had won the 76 games, they backed out at the last minute because the Colorado voters voted against using public funds for it. Innusbruck didn't even make a bid, the IOC selected it as the fall back plan.

Even if you consider the entire history of the Winter Olympics, the only other site that repeated was Lake Placid and that was because Vancouver pulled out and nobody else ran against them in the vote for the 1980 games!

06-09-2010, 02:48 AM	#6
Hack&Lube Atomic Nerd Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary Exp:	No, it'd be a complete waste of time and taxpayer money to even formulate a bid. Any 88 games specific infrastructure that we still have would be totally half a century out of date by the time enough time has even possibly passed for this even to be considered a 1% possibility. No Winter Olympics site has ever repeated in the modern era from a successful bid. The only time a site hosted twice in the modern era was Innusbruck because after Denver had won the 76 games, they backed out at the last minute because the Colorado voters voted against using public funds for it. Innusbruck didn't even make a bid, the IOC selected it as the fall back plan. Even if you consider the entire history of the Winter Olympics, the only other site that repeated was Lake Placid and that was because Vancouver pulled out and nobody else ran against them in the vote for the 1980 games! Last edited by Hack&Lube; 06-09-2010 at 03:13 AM.