As of right now there is no full size arena proposal in the bid details, just a 7000 seat arena that is not wanted or needed, basically the epitome of Olympic infrastructure. A specialty arena for curling or short track speed skating for two weeks in February and then the home of....? into the future. People can infer all they want in to that growing but it's a big step to go from that kind of facility to the 18,000+ seat arena needed for big league sports and concerts. All that is to say any deductions based on a full sized arena in the proposal exist only in people's imaginations. It's interesting to see some people try to use this 7000 seat arena as a sprinboard to the full arena we all seem to want, but with the weird and expensive intermediary step of the olympics. Espcially when a lot of those people were staunchly against giving the owners any money but now seem to be over the moon to hand even more to the IOC.
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