Cost to B.C. to Host Olympics Higher than Promised
 

Of course, the Sea to Sky is ridiculous to include. You could always include any costs spent to speed up construction, as these are incrementally related to the games, but I believe that they finished ahead of schedule?

I'm not sure if keeping the venues operating after the games has any relevancy, unless that means the costs associated with setting up and taking down their Olympics-related configurations. As well, I have no idea what the "infrastructure deal" is supposed to be.

At least we will finally get some truth in the media about the spending, and no the $3 billion, $5 billion, $7 billion that they've stated in the past.


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Great to see this forum is now back open, odd how it was locked so quickly after the Games (though every topic is locked). You guys/mods couldn't even wait until the end of summer or even the end of year?


What B.C. and Canada spent on the Games was by far affordable, that is if you use the real numbers and some actual common sense on determining what's an Olympic cost and what's not.

Sensationalist dribble like the Province's headlines of "$6,000,000,000 OLYMPIC COST" on the front page artificially killed much enthusiasm for the Games in the years leading up.


It was a tourism ad, genius. It was on almost during every NBC commercial break.



That would be fair.



Crown corporation budgets should be separate from government expenditures.

Stupidest campaign ever... anyone who was able to see the redundant you-gotta-be-here signs was, obviously, already "here".

The "You Gotta Be Here" TV advertising campaign was all across Canada, and the USA, and supposedly quite successful.

Yeah I know, but after they do come here from all over, they don't need to be told again, lol

That ad campaign was just spectacular, in my opinion. I have also heard references about it being well-received, and well-utilized. It worked for locals too... I think some people fail to realize that it did have a positive impact on locals, who picked up on the positive reminders of what a beautiful corner of the world we live in, and sharing it with the world was something to celebrate.

It's so easy to nitpick after-the-fact, isn't it?

Whatever... no one cares how much it is now that everyone had a great time during the games.

Yeah anecdotally I'm gonna have to call bullshit. I traveled quite a bit in the period directly following the big O and saw the BC ads in Boston, Vegas, and San Diego. Vegas in particular struck me as inspired - everyone there is on vacation and therefore likely to be traveling more often than your average bear. Plus, (this coming from an American, of course) there's absolutely nothing wrong with feeling proud of the place you came from - and those BC ads are certainly a great way to show off some of the spectacular parts of what we've created/what we cherish to the rest of the world.

So worth it.

loll...tell that to the Greeks.:haha:

But I couldn't agree more. And nearly all of us in this board know the actual costs of the Games, not the ones flung around in the sensationalist media. Like Expo '86, I truly believed we pulled off hosting an incredible Winter Olympic experience for locals, visitors, and the worldwide tv audience without sending ourselves to the poor house.


As for the "You Gotta Be Here" campaign, it was really worth its $38-million price. We advertised ourselves to the world just when they were paying attention to us. This was by far the most effective year to do such an advertising campaign. Of that $38M, something like $18-million was to NBC and apparently the Office episode with Dwight mentioning a visit to Vancouver and British Columbia was part of the campaign. :D

"No one"? "Everyone"?

Do you know everyone?

You mean when they were laughing at us?

it was only the brits and the ignorant russians who were laughing at us...so who cares

seriously, get that stick out of your ass (figuratively now)

Given the frantic state of the city, I think we should be very happy at the way things turned out. It was a great time, and we won't be paying for it forever. Everybody complained about the security budget, and the G20 eclipsed that in 2 days, and had more go wrong in that area.

It's called leftarded syndrome. If only it could be cured by a smack in the head.


Where are those leftarded idiots these days with their claims the CCTV cameras would still be around or that civil liberties would be taken away? or that this was going to be a police state with armed soldiers on every corner?

Well said. All the fear mongering that was going on was silly, none of which came to pass. I was against the games due to the costs, but I have to say that I admit that I was wrong and it was worth it in the end:banana:

global reported the 925 figure but than said but it was really anywhere from 4-7 billion blah blah blah

*sticks head in sand*

Everything is wonderful... Everything is wonderful... Everything is wonderful...

The truth is no one cared about the Winter games before we hosted it, and they still don't. We paid over a billion dollars for two weeks of "feel good" nationalism. If it made you feel good, fantastic, but IMO it wasn't worth it.

1) Perhaps "no one cared" because of overly cynical and pessimistic individuals like yourself spouting off nonsense and sensationalized dribble about the Games?:rolleyes:

2) No one today cares about the Winter Games we hosted. Are you really sure about that?