Winter Olympic Games 2026 Bid Process

[NearPup 4,183]

Plesbicid on Calgary’s 2026 bid today. Early results look very bad for the bid, Robert Levingston is reporting that through the first 65,000 votes the no side is up 65-35.

[Olympian1010 8,301]

7 minutes ago, Nate River said:

Plesbicid on Calgary’s 2026 bid today. Early results look very bad for the bid, Robert Levingston is reporting that through the first 65,000 votes the no side is up 65-35.

And then there were 2?

[intoronto 6,904]

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Unofficial #yycvote results for Vote 2018: 304,774 Ballots Cast 132,832 FOR Calgary hosting (43.6%) 171,750 AGAINST Calgary hosting (56.4%)

[NearPup 4,183]

Results have just been anounced. Calgary 2026 is dead.

 

Yes: 43.6%

No: 56.4%

[Olympian1010 8,301]

Go Stockholm!!!

[NearPup 4,183]

37 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Go Stockholm!!!

With the current state of Swedish politics it ain’t happening. At this point it’s Milan or Salt Lake City.

[phelps 8,716]

what a wonderful awake!  

 

no, seriously...I have a real conflict within myself...I'd like to be proud of the increased chances of Milan, but I'm so scared of the possible outcome and consequences of that happening (waste of public money -as if we were not already famous for that...we call it "magna magna", to be pronounced as if the "gn" was a Spanish "ñ"-  political fights beyond every imagination -as if we haven't had enough of them in the last 157 years- and also all of our NOC and winter sports federations funding and attention going lost from the youth activity and development of our sport causing years of miserable results after the "big event", as it happened with Torino 2006) that I just don't know what to think of all this...

 

however, now it's clear that the Italian option is the last chance for the IOC...now they only have to put a red carpet between Milan and Lausanne, if they still realy care about the futrure of Winter Olympic Games...

Edited November 14, 2018 by phelps

[Dunadan 1,103]

I think we Italians must be realistic...we are already going towards a big reduction in funding for high performance sport, if we also host the Olympics many years of miserable results and reduced participation in all sports will surely come. 

[heywoodu 16,464]

2 hours ago, phelps said:

what a wonderful awake!  

 

no, seriously...I have a real conflict within myself...I'd like to be proud of the increased chances of Milan, but I'm so scared of the possible outcome and consequences of that happening (waste of public money -as if we were not already famous for that...we call it "magna magna", to be pronounced as if the "gn" was a Spanish "ñ"-  political fights beyond every imagination -as if we haven't had enough of them in the last 157 years- and also all of our NOC and winter sports federations funding and attention going lost from the youth activity and development of our sport causing years of miserable results after the "big event", as it happened with Torino 2006) that I just don't know what to think of all this...

 

however, now it's clear that the Italian option is the last chance for the IOC...now they only have to put a red carpet between Milan and Lausanne, if they still realy care about the futrure of Winter Olympic Games...

Can we stop declaring bids dead when they're factually speaking still alive?  I think we have enough dying bids already  

[dcro 10,211]

45 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Can we stop declaring bids dead when they're factually speaking still alive?  I think we have enough dying bids already  

 

Because we are not naive?

 

I immediately predicted the fall of Swiss and Austrian bids. Why would Sweden be any different? Refresh your meory with page 1 of this thread.