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Originally Posted by Bunk
Simply, it's much cheaper than building a brand new ski jump facility. Is it ideal? no, but it's a pragmatic solution to reduce cost. , cost is not a City of Calgary taxpayer cost, either. It will be games revenue and Federal security costs. It's also not really a marquee event like the Gold Medal Hockey game.
Also, having some specific events away from the host city is not uncommon. Equestrian in 2008 was in Hong Kong, Soccer in London was all over England.
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Somewhere in the bid they say they save 50 million by hosting in whistler. I think the better move would be to tell the IOC that ski jumping will not be in the Olympics.