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Originally Posted by Itse
Exactly. What makes the Olympics so crazy expensive to host is the massive amount of sites you need to build and/or renovate, and that's not counting all the infrastructure you need to create to host all the athletes, coaches+other staff, press and tourists.
If Calgary and Edmonton host it together, all you need to add is the red carpet.
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Not just crazy expensive to host, but expensive to bid on with actually getting them being far from a guarantee. Calgary could have bid on them and we'd still be watching them in Milan. Some countries spend $50-100 million on the bid alone and get nothing. People talk like Calgary missed out by not bidding, but IMO it was putting a lot of money on a gamble with a less that 50% chance of being successful.