Congrats to Toronto for the win but I have to say that is a horrible bid video. The quick edits and flashes had me wondering what the heck is going on the whole time I watched it.
I tend to agree with that... While I was watching, I felt like I was about to have a seizure... And I'm not even epileptic!
It looked as if it was created by a first-year video arts student.
Personally, I'm a proponent of more Canadian cities bidding for the Pan-Am Games and Commonwealth Games in the future. For instance, Edmonton's '78 Commonwealth Games gave them a couple great pieces of lasting infrastructure in the LRT and Commonwealth Stadium, and Hamilton will get a new stadium out of these Pan-Am Games. No reason other cities can't do similar.
Let's hope these games are as successful for Toronto and the GTA as they were for Winnipeg!!
It will be interesting to see what the Feds and Ontario give to these games, the 1999 games in Winnipeg only had a budget of $141 million. Other than a few refurbishments of existing facilities, the construction of a minor league baseball stadium their legacy was not great. These truly are a "B" games if even that.
The Americans sent their "B" team in 1999. No major US networks covered the Games, while newspapers only sent second-string reporters instead and the stories never made front page news. Many high profile athletes, of all nationalities, such as US champion sprinters were in Europe during these Pan Am games, taking part in professional events. South American nations (with the exception of Uruguay) did not send their under-23 male soccer teams after the organizing committee refused to pay appearance money to CONMEBOL.
Read this on TSN, surely these numbers are not correct or Manitoba got royally screwed!
"Some have questioned the investment in the two-week Games, which includes $1.4 billion for the sporting event itself and $1 billion for an athletes' village - expected to be turned into a mixed-income neighbourhood serviced by transit.
The federal and provincial governments are each on the hook for 35 per cent of the $1.4 billion, or some $500 million each. Municipalities and private investors will pay the remaining $428.5 million."
This much for an event that no one will bother attending or watching!
Read this on TSN, surely these numbers are not correct or Manitoba got royally screwed!
"Some have questioned the investment in the two-week Games, which includes $1.4 billion for the sporting event itself and $1 billion for an athletes' village - expected to be turned into a mixed-income neighbourhood serviced by transit.
The federal and provincial governments are each on the hook for 35 per cent of the $1.4 billion, or some $500 million each. Municipalities and private investors will pay the remaining $428.5 million."
This much for an event that no one will bother attending or watching!
$2.4 billion total??? It's only the Pan Am games(It's basically the US-Canada-Mexico and a bunch of small countries).
QC and Winnipeg should get money for their arenas if the federal government is willing to give that much.
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