Toronto 2024 Olympic Bid (Dead)

[PL1]

Lame idea. No interest. Let it die a painful death.

What if they had a Olympic-calibre cozy café?

 

[AnnetteMeetsJane]

Can we work out how to pay for our share of the World Cup first? QP still hasn't agreed their share of that.

 

[Mihairokov]

As much as it would seemingly annoy everyone west of Kenora the idea of a Laurentian Olympics is more interesting than a single city bid. For Toronto at least it provides a good excuse to build some legacy infrastructure, something we are not doing for the World Cup, whilst also utilizing existing venues, particularly the Pan-Am venues. Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa could easily split the games outside of the issue of Downhill skiing, but if Beijing can host Equestrian in Hong Kong and Paris can punt surfing to Tahiti I don't see why we can't just have Downhill in BC. Alternatively, if we want to use the new long-track in Quebec City, we could also just use Le Massif there instead. There are creative workarounds which are more interesting to read about than people dismissively passing this off.

 

[Jonny5]

As much as it would seemingly annoy everyone west of Kenora the idea of a Laurentian Olympics is more interesting than a single city bid. For Toronto at least it provides a good excuse to build some legacy infrastructure, something we are not doing for the World Cup, whilst also utilizing existing venues, particularly the Pan-Am venues. Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa could easily split the games outside of the issue of Downhill skiing, but if Beijing can host Equestrian in Hong Kong and Paris can punt surfing to Tahiti I don't see why we can't just have Downhill in BC. Alternatively, if we want to use the new long-track in Quebec City, we could also just use Le Massif there instead. There are creative workarounds which are more interesting to read about than people dismissively passing this off.

I've never been to Tremblant. Could it hold the downhill skiing events? If not, I would be curious to know more about the why not, like not high enough mountains, or not enough access?

One fun one could be if the Chedoke ski hill in Hamilton could be reactivated as a venue for something like snowboarding or moguls. IIRC while it was a very short ski hill, it was the steepest in Canada at the time.

 

[PL1]

I've never been to Tremblant. Could it hold the downhill skiing events? If not, I would be curious to know more about the why not, like not high enough mountains, or not enough access?

One fund one could be if the Chedoke ski hill in Hamilton could be reactivated as a venue for something like snowboarding or moguls. IIRC while it was a very short ski hill, it was the steepest in Canada at the time.

Tremblant has a vertical drop of 645m. Apparently Olympic downhills are typically 800-1000m of vertical. I suspect it's not a big enough hill.

 

[christiesplits]

For Toronto at least it provides a good excuse to build some legacy infrastructure, something we are not doing for the World Cup, whilst also utilizing existing venues, particularly the Pan-Am venues.

I recall hearing that many of Toronto’s Pan-Am facilities were not built to the Olympic standard.

 

[Northern Light]

Tremblant has a vertical drop of 645m. Apparently Olympic downhills are typically 800-1000m of vertical. I suspect it's not a big enough hill.

It would require a waiver from the IOC though only for Men's downhill.

Le Masif is the biggest drop in Quebec at 770M, there's nothing bigger operational in eastern Canada that I'm aware of; though there are other mountains in Quebec that are potentially viable (but currently lack the ski facilities)

 

[JasonParis]

The 1980 Winter Olympics, held in a comparable part of the continent, featured a downhill with an 847-metre vertical drop — on the lower end by today’s standards, but still comfortably within the traditional Olympic range.

It does raise the question of whether Le Massif de Charlevoix could somehow add another 100 metres. Stranger things have happened.

 

[MisterF]

The 1980 Winter Olympics, held in a comparable part of the continent, featured a downhill with an 847-metre vertical drop — on the lower end by today’s standards, but still comfortably within the traditional Olympic range.

It does raise the question of whether Le Massif de Charlevoix could somehow add another 100 metres. Stranger things have happened.

Mount St. Louis Moonstone added around 60 m of vertical using fill. So I'm sure it's technically possible to do the same at Le Massif. The question is why would they bother? Mount St. Louis is a small hill and the extra vertical makes a big difference in the experience of skiing there. That wouldn't really be the case at Le Massif. There might be environmental costs too.

Whether hosting the Olympics would make it worth it is certainly debatable.