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Originally Posted by zhulander
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South Korea - and Sochi - presented their own unique challenges, building net-new facilities to accommodate. IOC has changed their position on this for 2026, being more apt to working with rehabbed facilities (even with a Whistler component for ski jumping which is still functional). Keep in mind that Calgary isn't going to have a "white elephant" situation that Pyeongchang and Sochi did; this is an atheltic training grounds with proven facilities to be used for long-term gain well after the games are concluded.
And where is this narrative that all Calgary will have to show for it is a "field house"? This is falsetto on all fronts. Existing facilities will be upgraded rehabbed to not only handle crowds and usage, but also to meet compliance around venue and facility sizing that has changed since 1988.
If you are talking about "new facilities" then yes, we are getting a new field house (in addition to other things). Thre is the possibility of working in a Flames arena too (depending on how you see the proposed
new community arena). But you can't discount all the upgraded facilities and infrastructure that we get. It is short-sighted at best.
And to say that federal funding eight years ago would have gotten funding for those things is a straw-man argument. You're just throwing out major infrastructure projects and hoping they stick without providing any evidence that such projects would have been funded eight years ago (what Calgary-bid committee are you referring to that articulated these would be covered?)