What are the Pan Am Games you ask? Well, it's known as somewhat of a prequalifier for the Olympics held every four years, the year before the big Games. Participants from the Americas and Caribbean compete in multi-sport events. With a history of losing two Olympic Games and two Commonwealth Games, this victory seems bittersweet.
(Courtesy of the CBC)
The Games will bring a $1 billion athletes' village in the West Donlands which includes a component of affordable housing after the games and develop sports infrastructure to the region in the form of a new aquatics centre with two 50-metre pools and a separate diving tank plus a high-performance sports training facility at the U of T's Scarborough campus. This will contribute to the health of our residents and to Toronto's identity as a city with world class facilities.
The Games will surely be good for tourism and potential public transit advances but will it cost us money or make us money?
The Games will surely be good for tourism and potential public transit advances but will it cost us money or make us money?
Whatever happens post-2015, Toronto's vision of the future is grand.
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