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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
Why is it embarrassing. I get that you might want this city to be a part of the World Cup bid, but again, all that's saying is Calgary isn't a soccer city. Personally for you, and many others likely thats upseting. But in isolation, that means nothing about the city of Calgary.
Calgary is one of the few cities in this country that could be set up to host an Olympic games (winter). Are other cities that aren't an embarassement. The point is, you can't site the inability to participate in ONE event as an indication of a lack of world class facilities in the city as a whole. Doing that is plain and simple in accurate.
Calgary is set up to host Olympics, NHL hockey, NBA basketball if needed, CFL football, concerts, etc..... (and a new arean is meant to maintain our position to do the above in the future as the facilities are antiquated).
Calgary is clearly not set up well to host NFL football, Soccer or any form of Baseball.
We absolutely don't need to check everything off that list to be a world class city. This city has hosted Olympics, hosts one of the most world renound festivals in the world, along with plenty of other things. If this city simply never becomes a soccer city, it means nothing in isolation.
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Are we really ready to host the Olympics still? Our facilities from 25 years ago are not good enough anymore.
I am not sure our facilities are up to Olympic standards anymore. Probably only the Oval and that is probably a stretch compared to some of the recent speed skating Ovals.
McMahon would be a joke for the opening ceremonies, majority on here want a new hockey rink as the saddledome is showing it's age, the bobsled tracks and ski jump are not Olympic quality anymore
We would need a lot of new facilities to be able to hold the Olympics now.
All we are really set up for is NHL and CFL, and fans of both those teams are hoping for new facilities. Concerts don't even count now since we miss out on a lot of those lately due to the saddledome being unable to facilitate the more intricate stage set ups.