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Originally Posted by goodgrowth
Sure but the Bejing games in 2022 are a winter olympics right? Can't totally compare that to a summer Olympics in terms of cost.
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It says a lot about the expectation and ambition, though. Beijing in 2022 is spending half ($3.5B) what Vancouver spent in 2010 ($7B). Most of it on new alpine and ski facilities that China doesn't really have.
https://money.cnn.com/2015/07/31/new...ing/index.html
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ticle15036916/
It's lower even if you take the $4B number for Vancouver that their CEO pushes, and less than the $5.2B proposed from Calgary's draft bid for 2026.