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View Poll Results: Are you for or against Calgary hosting the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games?
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11-21-2018, 03:16 PM
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but that wasn't money they were giving. it was in the form of "goods and services" that could mean a whole lot of things, many of them not good for Calgary.
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Like what?
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11-21-2018, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Like what?
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for the IOC entourage, who pays for that?
I'm sure they count having themselves at the games as offering their Olympic management prestige, and counts it as a service. can't be cheap to host the IOC people.
seems like too easy of a category offering "goods and services" instead of cash. too much room to game the system for themselves, and they IOC are experts at it.
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11-21-2018, 03:55 PM
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11-22-2018, 06:37 AM
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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
for the IOC entourage, who pays for that?
I'm sure they count having themselves at the games as offering their Olympic management prestige, and counts it as a service. can't be cheap to host the IOC people.
seems like too easy of a category offering "goods and services" instead of cash. too much room to game the system for themselves, and they IOC are experts at it.
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The IOC offered 900 million USD in goods and services. The Calgary bid committee only had 800 million Canadian as the funding from the IOC. So a big chunk of that money was not useful.
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02-07-2019, 12:26 PM
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Resurrecting this thread. I think this is a bit of a bluff and one of the levels of government will come through with the money. But this is what is at risk when we voted no. And it's not just the track that would close. Athletes and coaches live and train here - they might move to wherever the new training centre moves to (assuming it goes to). And there are dieticains, physio, kineseology, trainers etc. that also all live here. All the support staff that goes with having your national team train in your city. We risk losing all of that and will lose it unless the facilities are maintained.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...tion-1.5008103
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02-07-2019, 12:38 PM
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I'm fine with that because that still costs us less than that bid would have.
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02-07-2019, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Resurrecting this thread. I think this is a bit of a bluff and one of the levels of government will come through with the money. But this is what is at risk when we voted no. And it's not just the track that would close. Athletes and coaches live and train here - they might move to wherever the new training centre moves to (assuming it goes to). And there are dieticains, physio, kineseology, trainers etc. that also all live here. All the support staff that goes with having your national team train in your city. We risk losing all of that and will lose it unless the facilities are maintained.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...tion-1.5008103 |
making their play this way was a mistake.
I can't see the mayor or any level of government appreciating hearing about it via the media.
they got 17 million and all of a sudden they want 8 million more (plus operating costs)
Dale Oviatt, a spokesperson for WinSport, said the costs of the renovation increased, but the organization also determined that it needed to think about future costs. That could cost more than the additional $8 million needed.
nice of them to take so long to come to the conclusion they have to think of future costs.
guess they thought the bid was a no brainer and they could make it rain.
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02-07-2019, 01:14 PM
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Winsport has done a poor job carrying on the Olympic legacy. When COP was run by CODA, their mission was to support winter Olympic sports in perpetuity. Ski jumping is pretty much toast and if this doesn't get more funding, bobsled, luge and skeleton are toast.
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02-07-2019, 01:55 PM
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#1829
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Still think this was a bit of a missed opportunity for Calgary, but it will definitely be hilarious if we somehow find funding for a BMO expansion, new arena and fieldhouse in the next budget cycle WITHOUT the Olympics.
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02-07-2019, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by habernac
Winsport has done a poor job carrying on the Olympic legacy. When COP was run by CODA, their mission was to support winter Olympic sports in perpetuity. Ski jumping is pretty much toast and if this doesn't get more funding, bobsled, luge and skeleton are toast.
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Winsport is (was) CODA, they changed their name several years ago if I am reading this correctly.
https://www.winsport.ca/aboutwinspor...ort_n58pqn.cfm
Last edited by Lubicon; 02-07-2019 at 02:28 PM.
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02-08-2019, 10:41 AM
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Yeah, nothing's changed at all. Except the name they call themselves. I worked there for many years, and still know people there.
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