Only certain kinds of places can pull off an Olympics, and I don't even mean financially. For me, the level of cost overruns isn't how I measure the worth of an Olympics. It's an opportunity to showcase the best that a city and country have on offer in athletics, urban design, healthy living, quality of life. There are only a handful of major cities -- for example, Rome, Paris, Tokyo, Barcelona -- who can live that large. I'm not sure that TO is one of those. It takes balls, over the top confidence and optimism. It's a bit of a Don Quixote flop, but the attempt at heroics is pretty heroic. People here complain about hosting the Olympics as though it's someone else's show. It's up to the city to make it a success. Throwing a successful international competition that benefits other countries doesn't have to be a mutually exclusive goal from achieving the city building dreams most people on this forum share. But I question whether enough people here agree that this is achievable. There's real skepticism, which I think means either we're not ready now and need to wait on it, maybe to 2028, or maybe we'll never be ready, because that longstanding city project has been dropped. Not sure the people buy in. The only way to win this puppy is to be all in with a bid, as unanimous in our support as possible, and design a truly visionary Olympics. I'm not sure that's possible prior to the Tuesday deadline or after it. If there's faint support, the bid will lose, if we even get to a bid. Seems like a shame, because holding the Pan Am's really was a trial run. We used the same tactic as Rio, hosting a Pan Am's prior to bidding for an Olympics. I always secretly hoped I'd see an Olympics and maybe even a World's Fair in Toronto in my lifetime. As far as benefits to infrastructure go, I think they'd be big. I hope a bid goes forth just to see the design proposals. I hope it's bold and attempts one or two major projects (revamped Gardner, subways, tree-lined canals, beautiful mixed use waterfront).