We know the owners never wanted to go.
"The estimated cost of the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang is $12.9 billion, and that’s for the Winter Olympics, which are cheaper to run." No one really knows how much China is spending. As has been noted repeatedly here, it's the closest thing to the 1936 Olympics since 1936.
The list of North American and European cities over the past 10-20 years, who's population rejected an Olympic bid includes a dozen former hosts, Calgary included.
The Olympics have changed from an great old idea to revive an ancient Greek and Macedonian athletic and music celebration into a bloated, pretentious and costly chest beating "Who leads the medal count" political points parade.
We all love a Hockey tournament that features the best on best. At what cost? If the Olympics were truly a "celebration" of athletics then why is the Medal count even published? I love World Cup Alpine and PVR every race. The winners receive $50,000 US. They are treated like royalty around the world. They are NOT "amateur's" training for just the Olympics and the Olympics alone. They are career skiers and the Olympics is as much a "perk" to them as it is to Pro Hockey. Both would continue non stop if there were no Olympics at all.
South Korea cost 12.9 billion yet we voted down a 3-4 billion "plan" for good reason as that estimate was absolutely sure to double even with "existing facilities".
The Covid outbreak has already nailed the coffin shut on NHL participation it's just a matter of time. They have to make these lost games up.
The real question is can the "Olympics" find a way to seriously cut down the size and scale or even China and Russia are going to bow out in a few years. The idea of "fixed locations" isn't bad however I don't think it address' the ridiculous scale of the thing at all and may just make it worse.
Myself it's the over the top chest beating in the games themselves that have lost my interest. Don't we get enough of that from the Oilers fans?
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