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Originally Posted by Shazam
They'd have to make brand new tracks. Not sure there's enough hill. The ones there are considered beginner now.
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Calgary's Olympic sliding track is getting a makeover after three decades and a quarter of a million bobsled, luge and skeleton runs.
A $20-million renovation scheduled for the summer of 2018 will dramatically alter the upper section of the track at Canada Olympic Park, which has been the home of Canada's sliding teams since it was built for the 1988 Winter Games....
Calgary is currently exploring a possible bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics. The sliding track project was going ahead regardless, Heck said, but it would dovetail nicely with a bid should it happen.
"The beautiful thing about it is, and I don't want to trivialize $20 million, but you'll end up with a modernized, world-class track for a fraction of the cost of a new one, which would be one hundred and forty or fifty million dollars," Heck said.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...lion-1.4056516
If this thread has taught me one thing, is that people have already formed opinions and have knee-jerk answers to problems that have already been solved.