Olympic venues aren't infrastructure, and are mostly useless afterwards.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Olympic venues aren't infrastructure, and are mostly useless afterwards.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If all one is looking for is the new stadium to be built to use afterwards. $300+ million of taxpayer dollars for just it, VS $3+ billion of taxpayer dollars for the whole Olympics...
My choice is still zero for both.
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Or the $5 billion renovation of Parliament.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Wat!?!! You shut your whore mouth!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The facilities in Sarajevo, Munich, Athens, Rio, and Turin are fuckin Tip Top!
Sochi says hello.
Vancouver 2010 would disagree, the village was converted into housing and the skating oval is still ovally and skated on. Maybe we are just better at using our Olympic infrastructure than Europe or China?This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Your exceptions prove the rule.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If thats an option, sure.... but that's been peddled as a solution for damn near 20 years and there has been virtually no progress.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I somehow got into Russian Women's or more like teen figure skating and the drama surrounding Team Tutberidze is an awesome follow. Guilty pleasure for sure
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Shit, there's only 49 users here, I doubt we'll even break 100
Sochi looks really nice. Has palm trees.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Can we please go for the Olympics this time around! Please, please, please!
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Of course we should have Olympics. No brainer.
We should get rid of the hockey team and stampede grounds if we need to save money.
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Hah, you it would be incredible for your business.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Mascot pins?
That's a planning issue and not so much an Olympics issue (though it should be a part of the criteria when evaluating bids). Calgary got a lot of use out of it's '88 facilities, as did Lake Placid. Vancouver's facilities have largely usurped Calgary's as the go-to for training Canada. While a good chunk of Canada's skeleton and sliders do their dryland training in Calgary, their on-ice is done in Whistler because a) facility is newer, and b) COP didn't have funding to update their facility.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Where Rio, Turin and Beijing (to an extent since they got both summer and winter olympics out of some of their facilities) go wrong is that they're built for one purpose with no plan (or desire to plan) for how to utilize it in the future. Anyone who's mad about not getting a new arena would likely be onboard for the Olympics as it would provide a leverage boost for negotiations and funding - similar to how it helped with building the original Saddledome and provided funding to expand McMahon Stadium too.
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Radical thinking but perhaps the CSEC could fund and build their own arenas.
You spelled Tsu-tina wrong.
It would be good for my business… as it would for a lot of Calgary / Rockies business …This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
They announced a 40 mil Reno of cop yesterday as well so maybe that will help … not sure what they are fixing up…
I thought we were defunding cops¿?!
Baby blue Sun-Ice jacket for everyone. Does anyone remember the Olympic volunteer prank one of the radio stations pulled in the mid 90's?
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