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Originally Posted by tkflames
You are describing my worst fear in a "yes" vote for the Olympics. My vote does not sanction the city/country to spend a bunch of extra infrastructure money in the name of a "citizen mandate" to host the Olympics. My yes vote would be for Calgary to host the Olympics at a pre-described dollar figure and any expectation for planned overruns would require projects to be scrapped in order to meet the original dollar figure.
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That's cool. I'm just saying those are the facilities that could get built as a result of an Olympic bid. A bid would push these facilities along faster, and would likely be one of the very few times, if not the only time, we'd see funding available from provincial and federal levels of government for those projects.
A 'worst fear' scenario is a bit sensational, but to each their own. I guess I'm just a lot more pragmatic about what we, as a city, could get out of this from an infrastructure standpoint. I would love to have all those facilities available to us, particularly since we're a winter city where athletes like to train and a citizen base with lots of healthy and active people that would benefit from these facilities - and the ability to host more national and international events for the long-term as well.