Erin Flegg wants the Sochi Games to move to Vancouver. "In his recent letter to David Cameron and the IOC, Stephen Fry calls on Britain and the International Olympic Committee to move the Olympics out of Russia rather than boycotting them. He suggests a couple of places, among them Utah and Lillehammer, Norway. Notably absent from the brief list is the most recent winter Olympics host city, and the one I currently call home, Vancouver, BC. Apart from giving me the chance to see Patrick Chan perform in person (I only arrived here in the fall of 2010), there are a few key reasons the IOC should consider bringing the games back to Vancouver. The first is simply a matter of infrastructure. The facilities have been built, the homeless people have been kicked out, and the Athlete’s Village of condos (the ones the mayor promised would be snapped up as soon as the 2010 games rolled out) has been standing empty, waiting for this moment, for the past three years. Sidney Crosby may have failed two years ago in his Gregor Robertson-appointed task of spurring the sale of almost 500 leftover units, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t give him a second go."
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:55:40 +0000
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