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Originally Posted by GGG
The Calgary olylympic organizing comitte posted a profit. This does not mean that the games brought in more money than was spent to bring the games here. As the 140 million dollar profit includes roughly half a billion in tax payer subsidies.
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Even if that's true, the city already has a lot of world class facilities in place that don't need to be built from the ground up. Our ski hills already host other events and competitions, so they're already self sufficient and maintained. Calgary is probably the most perpared city to host a future North American Olympic games and I can't see the costs soaring like it did in other host cities. Plus, who wouldn't want the government to help chip in for much needed infrastructure like a potentially new arena or new airport lrt line or Olympic village or etc.