GenerationW
Senior Member
If we were to start now (and I know we won't), why not?You can not build a DRL in 9 years. Not in the Toronto of today.
Not going to happen.
FIFA just rejected the U.S., Australia and England by massive margins in favour of Russia and Qatar(!) for the 2018 and '22 World Cups, and the IOC rejected Chicago for 2016 by a similar margin. Seems to me the "most lucrative market(s)" angle no longer holds much water.And North America has not hosted since 1996. That's a very long time for the largest and most lucrative market of the summer games.
Yet instead of pushing for the Olympics and all those gazillions in public money, Rob Ford is backing a Portlands NFL stadium that most consider to be a long shot and would almost certainly have to be built entirely with private money.Rob Ford may like the Olympics because they're a great way to get more money for public transit projects like subways and build a gigantic new stadium later usable for the NFL.