DavidJamesTO
Active Member
I would rather see Toronto bid for 2024--give the planners enough time to learn from running the Pan-Am Games.
South Africa just bowed out of a 2020 Olympic Bid. This makes the competition much weaker. That leaves Rome as the only strong contender. I think Toronto may want to seize this opportunity because 2020 seems like the right time to bid when taking into account the depth of the competition.
I highly doubt Toronto wins 2024 or 2028. I see Paris being awarded 2024 (They last hosted in 1924..100 year anniversary) and 2028 in Cape Town, South Africa (First African Games)
2032 would be the earliest and then I see the games going back to Asia (Japan)
So will I. Finally by 2025 Toronto's obsession with this big ticket event will be over. Of course we'll need until 2050 to pay for the overruns.I will probably scream in happiness if the COC announces a bid for Toronto 2020..
Given our experience with the construction of the St. Clair streetcar, the rebuild of a few blocks of Bloor, and the ongoing mess on Roncesvalles, I wonder if the Olympics would be too much of a stretch for Toronto. We're world leaders in planning and community consultation - actually building stuff not so much.
Given our experience with the construction of the St. Clair streetcar, the rebuild of a few blocks of Bloor, and the ongoing mess on Roncesvalles, I wonder if the Olympics would be too much of a stretch for Toronto. We're world leaders in planning and community consultation - actually building stuff not so much.
Tell that to Athens. Just a few weeks before the Olympics their stadiums, housing and infrastructure was a mess, and they had to incur massive cost overruns to get it all done more or less on time. It will be decades before Athens has their games paid off, that's if the country doesn't default. Even worse, almost all of the Olympic venues in Athens have now fallen into varying states of disrepair: according to wikipedia, 21 of the 22 facilities built for the games have either been left abandoned or are in a state of dereliction.Actually that's the beauty of the games. The strict deadlines mean that every ball from financing to construction is rolling smoothly in anticipation of the host year.
Tell that to Athens. Just a few weeks before the Olympics their stadiums, housing and infrastructure was a mess, and they had to incur massive cost overruns to get it all done more or less on time. It will be decades before Athens has their games paid off, that's if the country doesn't default. Even worse, almost all of the Olympic venues in Athens have now fallen into varying states of disrepair: according to wikipedia, 21 of the 22 facilities built for the games have either been left abandoned or are in a state of dereliction.