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Originally Posted by Slava
I was kind of hoping for a more exciting $8bn bid to be honest. New arena, fieldhouse, LRT to the airport, regional train to Canmore and some other goodies. I just feel like this is destined to be a billion-dollar boondoggle one way or the other, but that way we get some new shiny infrastructure out of the deal.
As it stands, the bid is super underwhelming. I can't believe they could present using the Stampede Grandstand to host the world with a straight face, nevermind some of the facilities that will be 40+ years old by the time hosting comes around.
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I guess you've never been to Ranahan's or Lazy S? The Grandstand is actually a perfect venue for medal ceremonies and hosting dignitaries. BMO Centre and Big 4 are also pretty ideal for media and country 'houses'.
I still think the best solution to the football stadium is another grandstand opposite the current one. I wish the Stampede would move in this direction instead of the Corral renovation.
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Nakiska has a T-bar at the top of Gold chair for the Olympic course, they need to make a crap load of snow up there for it to be usable. Since the Olympics that area has never been open to the public and only used for avalanche control by the ski patrol.
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I know about the T-bar - still wondering what the 'course access' capital improvement would be.
The '88 course looked pretty terrible by today's standards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp_TIgf5OCE
I am coming around to using Nakiska over Lake Louise though.