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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Well yeah. I was making light of previous justifications for security spending.
There's no way a modern games can break even the way Calgary '88 did, just because of the enormous security costs alone. That's money that even the most dodgy accounting can't put into the credit column.
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I don't think they can break even in the days after the end of the Olympics, but I think long term, we can actually benefit from the infrastructure and the venue upgrades unlike many other cities who build then go, "We don't need this thing anymore."
Most of the proposals are to give venues currently actively being used a face lift vs building from scratch and hoping to figure out what to do with it afterwards.
ie: Field house/Dome, Maxbell, Canmore, Banff, COP, Oval etc. and that's not including some roadwork upgrades.