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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Get the feds to pay for a new hockey arena and the Green line/LRT extension to the airport. Let Vancouver have the sled sports, etc.
Probably the IOC only bends if they can't find a host, which seems possible to me given the overruns in the recent past. I think the timezone alone would be attractive for them.
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I mean, a shopping cart wish list is nice I guess. But I can't see that happening.
As it was for the Calgary preliminary bid, the Feds were out on covering any overrun liability and the IOC seem to be getting less and less interest as people wake up to the fact that host cities end up left holding a bag of debt with the inevitable cost overruns from low balled promotional monorail bid organizers.
If this was the best potential host the IOC was banking on . . .
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...ysis-1.6632412
After more than a year of sitting on the sidelines, the B.C. government entered the Olympics debate — and promptly ended it.
But the lack of support means there's no financial backer to take on the billions of dollars of potential liabilities in infrastructure and security the games would likely cost. There's been no interest shown by the federal government in taking on that full responsibility.
Over time, other countries dropped their bids or became ensnared in controversy, and the International Olympic Committee moved back its time frame on announcing the winner, in part to give the potential B.C. bid more time to come to a positive conclusion.
It had gotten to the point where Vancouver was seen as a favourite to get the games — if it put forward an official bid.