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Originally Posted by wags
Just out of curiosity, where did you find the budget for the Vancouver Olympics was only 400 million? That seems very small, since many venues would cost that or more.
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In the late 90's and early 2000's before it even started promoters and Olympic comittee at first were promoting the cost forecast at approximately 400 million, then it went to 700 million and so forth. They were going to use existing infrastructure, make a few improvements and so forth. Kinda like they are now for the bid for Calgary. They used this figure in the early stages to sell the idea in order to get approved to apply a bid to host the 2010 olympics . Once the Olympics were awarded all sorts of additions to infrastructure were added on as it morphed into a 'World Class Spectacle and Showboat'. The costs skyrocketed.
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