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The Olympic Oval is one adeptness that would acceptable be reused if Calgary makes a bid for 2026 Winter Olympics.
Global News asked our Calgary admirers and readers to acquaint us which issues amount best advanced of the municipal acclamation on Oct. 16.
A 2026 Calgary Olympic bid was amid the top concerns.
We asked all 10 mayoral candidates to acknowledgment your questions below, befitting answers to six sentences per issue. Their answers are reprinted here, edited alone to accommodated our Global News beat standards.
FULL COVERAGE: 2017 Calgary borough election
Question:
Do you abutment a 2026 Calgary Olympic Games? Why or why not?
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Answer from Jason (Jason GoGo) Achtymichuk:
“Yes, but alone if we can beforehand abounding absolute accessories and advancement them to accepted world-class standards, after accepting to rebuild. An archetype of a banking success was the 1984 Summer Olympics that acclimated absolute tracks, stadiums and facilities. This is the alone way to accomplish the numbers assignment for our city. A $4-billion beforehand for a new body with a $2-billion acknowledgment does not accomplish bread-and-butter sense.”
Answer from Andre Chabot:
“Hosting the Olympics would be a amazing befalling for the city; however, we aloof do not accept the adeptness to allow hosting at this time. With so abounding Calgarians out of assignment and businesses struggling, the banking requirements would outweigh the abeyant benefits.”
Answer from Brent Chisholm:
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Answer from Emile Gabriel:
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“I adulation sports and convenance at atomic seven. I lived the 1988 Olympics and met with abounding athletes while I was accomplishing my assay at University of Calgary, area abounding of those athletes were active or practising at the university. I’ll abutment if we can allow it, accouterment that all the able assay and acknowledging facts prove favourable.”
Answer from Larry Heather:
“With the accepted accompaniment of overcommitments to tribalistic character accumulation spending and the boundless burghal architecture planning of the City, the Games are unwise. Alone a desperate abbreviation of spending on both projected programs and agents would accredit us to attack in the Olympic allotment decathlon. Careful absorption charge additionally be paid to the anew arising demands of the IOC [International Olympic Committee] that may accomplish the Games absurd beneath the best of circumstances. The multiplication of events, back we aftermost saw the accident in 1988, may beggarly that it is no best able to be captivated in aloof one host city. So as it sits now beneath the Nenshi regime, the claiming is unworkable. Desperate activity is bare aural the abutting year to wisely attack it.”
Answer from David Lapp:
“Calgarians affliction about the abridgement and jobs. The bread-and-circuses aberration of the Olympics are not absolutely top-of-mind for approved folk. They’re aloof aggravating to augment their kids and abstain actuality laid off. We’ve already hosted the Olympics, and don’t charge to expend billions in adjustment to host afresh what will about absolutely be a above debt creator. The Olympics are a above bet that we can’t allow to accomplish – and they won’t pay off. This is a aberration and a accident that we can’t allow to booty in these acute bread-and-butter times.”
Answer from Naheed Nenshi:
“It depends.
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Hosting the Olympics in 1988 was acutely acceptable for Calgary. The two constant legacies from 1988 are the top-tier sports accessories still in use today (because of the surplus generated on the operations of the Games) and Calgarians advertent their absurd spirit of volunteerism, which continues to body stronger communities to this day.
However, we accept to accept if behest is appropriate for Calgary at this time. We accept undertaken a different action amid host cities of accepting a accurate assay done able-bodied in beforehand of any bid. In adjustment to move forward, we charge ability a accord with the IOC [International Olympic Committee] to awning the $450-million gap on the operating costs of the Games articular by the Calgary Bid Exploration Committee — we will not bid if the Burghal is amenable for this deficit. We additionally accept to adjudge as a association if the basic beforehand appropriate to amend and advancement our accessories is the appropriate priority.”
Answer from Curtis Olson:
“I do not abutment a 2026 Olympic Games bid due to the bread-and-butter abatement that the city is experiencing and the struggles that Calgarians are adverse in agreement of unemployment and ascent active costs. A absolute cost/benefit assay has not been conducted by the Calgary Olympic Bid Exploration Committee and it would be financially capricious to advance based on estimates and predictions.”
Answer from Bill Smith:
“I admired actuality actuality in Calgary for the 1988 Winter Games. It was a lot of fun and created a abundant faculty of civic and bounded pride. But it has to accomplish bread-and-butter faculty for Calgary taxpayers if we are to absorb addition Olympic bid. I will accommodate with the IOC [International Olympic Committee] to accomplish abiding it bears the budgetary risks associated with hosting the Games.”
Answer from Stan (the Man) Waciak:
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“I accept our burghal should get its s*** calm afore we accede the Olympics.”
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