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Originally Posted by Red
Let me ask you this? Under what 'reasonable' circumstances would he Olympics be a welcome event for you?
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Originally Posted by chemgear
####, if we can have the Olympics with a reasonable understanding of the risk of overruns and financial risks and benefits, I'd look at it like any reasonable adult.
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I believe it is reasonable for an organization bidding for something as large as the Olympics for billions upon billions of dollars to be transparent and provide a clear understanding to a potential city council of the realistic costs and risks associated with the process.
Not a last minute compilation of fudged numbers to save a bid on the day of its deathbed. Not claiming $200,000,000 in insurance that does not exist or have not even started to contact to partners necessary for the bid. Not a campaign that literally promotes a financially false metric that comes only from ponzi schemes and would get any other company in trouble with the Securities commission.
####, I saved up and blew more money than most people do on a car to go the Olympics in Beijing. Front row seats for dozens of medals, opening and closing ceremonies and watching Usain Bolt get a gold medal.
EDIT: (BTW
https://www.cosport.com/ Though apparently things have apparently gone downhill in a bit in the decade since with them from what I read online. I literally got two of their biggest packages that were available back then.)
I'm not a no vote simply because of the fact that I don't believe or trust anything that the Bidco team have shown us based on their ridiculous sell job to date.
Can they fix that and could I change my mind? Of course!
Will they bother to be transparent and provide such clarity before the vote?
Shouldn't that have been their job in the first place?