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Old Posted Feb 17, 2009, 3:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Allen View Post
Totally agree with you! IT's time for the party and we all deserve it.
What chances of odds can you have to have the Olympics
hosted in your city and during your lifetime....pretty low...
And when you add up all the Olympic costs to taxpayers, it's something like $2.5-3-billion for provincial, federal, and municipal (adding the Canada Line and Sea-to-Sky highway as Olympic costs is a complete bogus).

And really, that makes it the most modest spending Olympics (both winter and summer) in a decade.

Everyone seems to think that the Olympic Games, or even the Winter Games for that matter, are some massive expense and organizational prep that we can't handle. Reality check: we are by far the largest/most populated Winter Games host city in history.