If I remember correctly, Vancouver 2010 is the first Olympics since Salt Lake 2002 to not have any international design competition for any of its venues. The focus, as we all know, was to build it on time, and on budget (with reasonable inflation, as we have witnessed).
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It's ever more clear we should have set designers free.
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And then the costs would be much higher. I'm sure the Tyee had a blast three years ago when VANOC announced they needed $110-million more.
One of the reasons why Athens and Torino saw major construction cost increases and behind scheduled construction was because of international competitions for the venues. To build all those grandiose venues at such a relatively short matter of time, especially for Athens.....Beijing on the other hand, we all know what happened.