Nobody Wants To Host The Olympics Anymore
Photo: Natacha Pisarenko (AP) The 2026 Winter Olympics will be held, somewhere. That’s about the only thing we can say for certain, six months before the International Olympic Committee is due to announce who the host city will be. One potential candidate, Calgary, took itself out of the running last month with a public plebiscite in which residents decisively voted against the city’s $5.1 billion Olympics plan. Another, Stockholm, saw a new city government declare in October that it would not abide by the IOC’s demand that local governments promise to fill all funding holes for any Games. A...
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