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Originally Posted by Joborule
In a perfect world, with or without the Olympics, these all the facilities that are needed, plus renewed would get done, and then the costs for security goes out the door if you don't still maintain the desire to host the games. But unfortunately as you mentioned, it doesn't work that way. This is why an opportunity to get funding for all the eggs in one batch is something to strongly consider. Because to do it for one thing alone, it's like pulling teeth. Getting money for a new arena, and renovations to McMahon, and a fieldhouse, and Oval renovations, winsport upgrades, etc. would be difficult to pull off in a reasonable (10-15 years) timespan.
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Sure it's worth considering, and if there were a genuine financial case to be made, I'd love to consider it. But as we've seen from the city's own risk assessment, the NHL not participating alone means financial debacle and makes it impossible for the Games to do anything but hemorrhage money. And security remains of course in flux, it could quite reasonably double between now and 2026 depending on what happens in the increasingly volatile world we live in.
For me, far too much of this bid relies on hope and on every single thing going exactly right. Given we're dealing with government where that never happens, and with the IOC where that never happens and quite often the exact opposite where everything goes wrong happens ....I feel pretty strongly this is going to go very poorly.