Winter Olympics facilities leave a more usable set of infrastructure compared to its Summer brethren. Sure you need to throw some money into ski jumps and sliding tracks which will only be used by hardcore athletes, but most of the rest are fairly well used by the public.
Arenas (hockey, figure skating, short track speed skating, curling)
Ski hills (alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, snowboarding)
Nordic Centre (biathlon, cross country skiing)
The only event I missed is speed skating which I'd say falls halfway between public use and hardcore athletes only.
Calgary would put together a very efficient bid. The only thing that would make it run away is how many bells and whistles we want to add (e.g. high speed train to Banff, road upgrades, etc.).
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