I guess some of it will come down to how much was already built and the increases in construction costs in general since the start of the pandemic. But also, its pretty common - every Olympics since 1960 have gone over budget; and if the Commonwealth games work like the Olympics then the whole financial risk is born by the city - none of it by the games organisations themselves. And the IOC is a haven of corruption and grift as far as I understand it.
Running these big tournaments - even for stuff like Rugby barely makes any economic sense nowadays with requirements to spend so much building stuff that’ll often barely get used outside of the 2 weeks or so of competition.
Are there rules about the commonwealth games? Are they not allowed to run it on the cheap, use existing stadiums, charge more for tickets to reduce demand so they don’t need bigger stadiums, etc? I guess there are a set of requirements they have to meet, perhaps those requirements need rethinking.
I guess some of it will come down to how much was already built and the increases in construction costs in general since the start of the pandemic. But also, its pretty common - every Olympics since 1960 have gone over budget; and if the Commonwealth games work like the Olympics then the whole financial risk is born by the city - none of it by the games organisations themselves. And the IOC is a haven of corruption and grift as far as I understand it.
Running these big tournaments - even for stuff like Rugby barely makes any economic sense nowadays with requirements to spend so much building stuff that’ll often barely get used outside of the 2 weeks or so of competition.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-07/what-japan-learned-from-olympic-white-elephants/100329488
Are there rules about the commonwealth games? Are they not allowed to run it on the cheap, use existing stadiums, charge more for tickets to reduce demand so they don’t need bigger stadiums, etc? I guess there are a set of requirements they have to meet, perhaps those requirements need rethinking.