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Originally Posted by New Era
When putting a bid together you have to be very clear what you are going to do and what facilities are going to be available for the games. Not having a state of the art arena for such a major event is just a massive hole in the proposal. I'll say this again. There is no way the bid committee would go forward without some level of certainty of what facilities the games would rely upon. They are not going to submit a bid for the 2026 Olympic Games without a clear schedule of where and how each sport is going to be presented. The IOC would be expecting that, and would not be happy to hear that there is a - nudge nudge, wink wink - "deal" being made for another major venue. They want to know how and where you are doing things, and don't give a rip about the backroom deals going on between CSEC and City of Calgary.
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The IOC are Macromanagers, they certainly could not care less about what is done with that money as long as they get their money and the games look good. Its important that the bid "looks good", if Calgary wins the bid, everything is off the table and things could change 100 percent, buildings/locations will change(already has happened for Tokyo 2020) and sports could even be removed.
The bid committee is certainly
not going to lay all their cards on the table at this time.
I would expect three separate views of this project:
1. A lowball looking model that looks good from a taxpayer perspective, this is what we will see before the November 13th plebiscite.
2. A Really nice fancy presentation for the IOC, this will be designed to win the bid and will spare no expense, the cost will probably go up by 2-3 billion.
3. If the bid is won everything can change, but the money will roll in and expect one of two things before we see the
final view in the lead up to 2026
- Corruption will settle in and all the goodies will be distributed among bad actors: (eg, Rio, Montreal, Sochi, and others)
- The money will be applied in such a way as to leave a maximum legacy for the host city: (eg Calgary 1988, Vancouver, Barcelona...)
Its not until phase 3 that we will know what is cooking on the arena front, but i do not see any reason why Calgary(like 1988) would not do the right thing at this stage. If the new arena is the proper way to go given the extra funding, then it will certainly be built.