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Originally Posted by Bunk
^ I can tell you that this has been in the works for at least 4 years. A lot of preliminary behind the scenes work by CSTA, leading to this. It hasn't popped out of nowhere, but this is the first step in a public conversation about a bid.
I was thinking about venue needs - in Vancouver they had both Rogers arena and Pacific coliseum for the hockey, short track and figure skating events.
I always assumed you'd need two arenas to host these days - but for hockey would it be worthwhile doing a London 2012 soccer thing and have the hockey tournament all across the country? I think that would be kind of neat. Might eliminate the need for two arenas active during the olympics.
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Why would we want to ship off hockey (the most popular winter sport by far) off to other cities? There is no reason we can't host all of it here.
Keep the Dome til 2026, build a new arena facility, and have the loser countries no one cares about play at WinSport.