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Originally Posted by Andy6
What a total catastrophe that stadium has been, right since day one. It's the gift that doesn't stop taking. I remember when it was "completed" it was said to have cost more than every other domed stadium in North America combined (and wasn't even successfully domed). It was how we ended up with lotteries on a big scale in Canada - because the only way the government could think of to pay for it was to bilk Canadians out of money by enticing them to gamble on the "Olympic Lottery".
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That's not quite right. The first Olympic Lottery was on April 15, 1974 and although a poorly worded article says
"But faced with the biggest Olympic deficit in history, the government sees the lottery as a good way to raise cash for the 1976 Montreal Olympics." it was never foreseen, at that point, the problems that befell the project.
It was meant to
help pay for a forecasted expensive Olympics, yes, in the aftermath of the Munich massacre, but not intended to pay for a disaster that hadn't yet happened (the stadium and other cost overruns).
1976 Montreal Olympics: Case Study of Project Management Failure