From The New York Times, February 23, 2011, a story headlined “In Vancouver, a new Effort to Sell Olympic Condos.” A year after the winter games, fewer than half of the 737 condos have been sold — almost all as preconstruction sales in 2007 — and the city’s taxpayers now owe about 750 million Canadian …
Tom talked about the story and strategy behind the No Games campaign at the College of Complexes. This video is divided into three sections – the first part is the story and is about 45 minutes. The second is questions from the audience. The third is mostly unrelated to the No Games narrative.
NBC Chicago aired a “documentary” on the 2016 Olympic bid tonight, “Making Big Plans: The Story of Chicago’s Olympic Dreams.” The film was made by Mark Mitten, who was the Chief Brand Officer of the 2016 Committee, and Jim Schmidt, a creative director for Downtown Partners/Chicago – which did marketing work for the bid. WATCH …
Frank Deford has covered sports for major media outlets for decades. He does a weekly op-ed piece on NPR. Today he commented on the coats of mega-events, such as the Olympics and the World Cup. “…as Vancouver goes about the nasty business of trying to pay off this winter’s Olympics, and as we approach the …
From the Canadian Press: A preliminary report estimates that hosting the 2010 Olympics cost Vancouver over a half a billion dollars. The report will be presented to city council next week and suggests the lion’s share of the costs went to venues and local infrastructure improvements. The bottom line doesn’t include the cost to the …
Chris Shaw is a professor at the University of British Columbia. He has been one of Canada’s leading anti-games activists. He started his opposition to the 2010 Vancouver games in September of 2002. Here is an excerpt from a column he recently published, “Eight billion dollars got Canadians high on the Olympics. Was it money …
This comment was posted to an anti-war email list that we subscribe to. Our discussions about the Olympics were mooted by events, but in case you are still dreaming about what might-have-been I quote below part of an email I received today from a former student who know lives in Canada (by “former student” don’t …
As the 2010 Olympics wind down in Vancouver, commentators and sports fans will be reviewing the footage and sorting through the performances, includng the death of one athlete. But here’s one statistic that will likely haunt the citizens there for some time to come – one billion. That’s how much debt the city is facing …
Check out this video from activists in Vancouver. It gives you a taste of what Chicago was in for had we got the 2016 Olympics…
Chicago, are you ready to be ruled by the IOC from Switzerland for seven years? No kidding. The Host City Contract includes language on making local laws subservient to the IOC Charter and Swiss law. As reported in the Vancouver Sun: Contract binds Vancouver to play by IOC rules or not play at Elites of …