# Toronto Olympic Bid: I told you so, you losers!

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 13, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-olympic-bid-i-told-you-so-you-losers/72399 "2001-07-13T18:19:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-olympic-bid-i-told-you-so-you-losers/72399/21 "2001-07-15T20:47:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by bernse \*  
> \*\*I agree with you 100%. Why don’t these fucks at the IOC just say “every city that wants the games, just send each of us something nice and shiny worth around a couple grand each… and we’ll get back to you with a decision in a few years.”  
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Isn’t that what they’d been doing for the last 30 years?

_cough_[sub]Salt Lake City[/sub]_cough_

You should’ve seen some of the 1993-94 plans from the San Juan bid to have the 2004 games. Ye gods… And in our case, our big piss-off is that there’s money for these silly PR projects, and there’s money to send 40 PUROC officials and their wives all over the world, but when our athletes have to improvise their hearts out to qualify and make it to the games, PUROC’s answer is: “the government needs to give US more money”

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