Olympics 2026 Potential Bid Thread
 

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Holding post for 2026 Bid Details

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Link to 2010 Bid Book

I'd like to see another Olympic bid as the legacy from '88 is still going strong, but we could definitely use an upgrade to lots of our facilities. That being said, the Olympics are massively expensive so we would need to have a very organized and coordinated plan (keep Ken King the hell away! haha) so as not to end up losing a massive amount of money that could be better spent elsewhere.

I would fully support a bid. It's time to upgrade our 88' legacy facilities and I'd would be a heck of a lot cheaper to host here than to start from scratch somewhere else.

Winter Olympics aren't as big of scale compared to summer, but they have grown massively since Calgary last held them. We would require lots of new facilities, probably the most major being what to do about Alpine events. Didn't we have a discussion about this 6 or 8 months ago?

A lot of our facilities would need to be rebuilt as they are old or don't meet current requirements (ski jump and bobsled track come to mind).

I think these would all move to Lake Louise. A future bid in Calgary would probably include Banff like Vancouver did with Whistler.

Last time Parks Canada wouldn't allow it. I'm sure there would be lots of resistance to that. Whistler isn't in a National Park.

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Yup, which is exactly why it would be a good idea to host. Adding several turns to the bobsled track and renovating the Oval is going to be much cheaper than building new.

The ski jump might need to be moved to elsewhere - I heard there are wind issues with the COP location. If that's not the case, I'm sure the existing structure could be used as a starting point.

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Isn't the tall ski jump not big enough anymore?

That's too bad, hopefully they would change their mind. That being said, dealing with the ridiculous bureaucracy to get anything built or approved would be like pulling teeth, so I'm not sure there would be the stomach to deal with that...

Will Nakiska even get any snow in ten years time? I think if we are forever banned from developing around Banff then any Olympic bid is a non starter.

Not really sure if new jumps are taller, or if jumpers are a lot better and can fly further. Probably a bit of both. The write up in the bid book seemed to be trying to make the point of something like 'who cares, this will be the most consistent facility in the world'.

It's kind of the opposite. The landing area wasn't big enough for what jumpers could do which was a major catalyst for why it got converted to the zipline. There was also a major safety issue because even if it were graded to the desired specs the chance of wind gusts taking people off course is too big of a risk as well.

No, it's a different jump. The ski-jumps would need to be totally revamped or more likely moved to a different venue - maybe Fortress Mountain as part of a re-opening (which I know is in the works).

Tell me more...

It's been "in the works" for a good decade. Are there more concrete plans?

It was nice to have some events at COP in the city, so hopefully they could keep things like moguls here. Ski jump and aerials might be more difficult with the wind issues. Not sure if you could do slalom as well.

More concrete than before:

Considering the age of the facilities, it's probably a lot cheaper to start over. Renovation costs tend to be higher with usually hidden surprises.

The savings would be not having to assemble the land.