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Originally Posted by longsuffering
Maybe you're too young to remember but Calgary didn't build the facilities and then go out and bid for the Olympics. Calgary was awarded the Olympics and then built the facilities. As another posted stated, it's not a "build it and they will come" scenario.
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I'm aware of that and wasn't implying anything of the sort. My post was in response to the notion that we could host another Olympics here because we already had the facilities. Most of our facilities are so outdated now, that it would be more or less like starting from scratch.