[LotusLand]

Originally Posted by flight_from_kamakura

well, sorry to all the non city dwellers on the board, but gvrd vancouver isn't vancouver though (surrey and those south and eastern suburbs might as well be another cma), so vancouver is definitely not the biggest city to host the olympics. let's just all keep that in mind, lest any coquitlam or surrey types make any unwarranted claims of olympichood. if you didn't vote in the olympics referendum, you're not an olympic city. heheh. that said, if pushed, i'd grant burnaby and richmond, toss in the city of north van and the endowment lands, giving us a cool 1.1 million. but if you go that way, i'm pretty sure torino and its environs would still win it.

but the point was on the exposure, and the population density is probably the best stat on that, giving it to vancouver pretty handily.

I'll agree with that but you would probably add Richmond and North Van into the mix because they are hosting events as well