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Originally Posted by GGG
But we don’t get new facilities to develop amateur atheletes. Things like the sliding Center and Windsport have proven they are able to find funding to maintain and upgrade their facilities. The oval and Canmore Nordic Center are no different.
So what do we get for facilities to help develop amateur atheletes for our .5 to 1.5 billion dollars? We get a fieldhouse. That’s it. Everything else has proven itself capable of being funded and maintained. So if it’s amateur athletes you want to support let’s spend 200 million of a field house and 100 million on a legacy fund and call it a day.
The Olympics are a bad value based on what we get for infrastructure even if the federal funding comes from the money fairy. Let’s skip the Olympics and build the infrastructure we need.
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Ask any high performance athlete on the state of the current facilities and whether they are enough. Yes, you're right that eventually they receive a little bit of funding but it's never enough for a true upgrade and overhaul.
Bob Niven training house at Winsport is ancient, the sliding track has been refurbished with stop gap fixes all over, Canmore Nordic Centre has obsolete work out facilities, the Olympic Oval has needed a new ice plant and mechanical equipment for about 10 years now.
Funding for true upgrades just never comes and is never stable. The priority this bid gives will bring the facilities up to par and ready for training for the next several dozen years.