Clara Hughes is part of a partnership that proposes to create lasting community benefits by demonstrating reconciliation with First Nations, fast-tracking housing and renewing sports infrastructure.
, Clara Hughes felt her stress levels rising. She was a defending champion in speedskating and carrying Canada’s flag in the opening ceremony.
“The energy and the encouragement of a nation, of all these different people and really feeling you were them — I will never forget that feeling: I am more than myself today. And that is the feeling I would wish for every athlete, every person to experience.” But every pitch to host an Olympics promises to deliver community benefits of some kind and the winners very rarely deliver as advertised.
“It’s positive to host events in Canada. It’s good for the world of sport; it’s also good for Canada,” Smith says. “We’re right to be concerned about budgets and we should be responsible, I’m a taxpayer, too. But I think we’ve shown that we can be and the budgets that we’ve put together have responsible contingencies.”
“A lot of people talk about , they throw that word around but they don’t have actions behind it,” Sparrow says. “People ask me, what does Indigenous-led mean? And we’re saying it’s to be involved at the very beginning.” In June, the partnership released its draft concept plan for three sport competition and athlete village hubs: Whistler, Vancouver and Sun Peaks Resort, five hours away, just north of Kamloops.
The documents say the $2.5 billion to $2.8 billion that it will cost to organize and deliver the Games will be privately funded through broadcast, sponsorship, ticketing and other revenues. The IOC had been expected to award the 2030 Games at its general meeting at the end of May but that meeting was recently pushed to at least September. So far, that hasn’t changed the group’s December deadline, a spokesperson said.
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