The 2010 Olympics coincided with the recession. A PricewaterhouseCoopers analysis released the year after the Olympics found the Vancouver Organizing Committee kept spending under $2 billion. From his perspective, Vancouver has hosted one of the most successful Olympic Games in recent history. Unlike other host cities with “ghost” facilities that languish unused after the Games, Vancouver’s Olympic infrastructure continues to flourish, said Raymond, whose visits to host cities include Seoul, Barcelona, Sidney and Athens. “The Vancouver 2010 Games faced extraordinary hurdles and hardship along the way and had to overcome a lot of things.

Source: National Post February 09, 2020 17:03 UTC