Talk:1988 Winter Olympics

coldest openning ceremony

i was told that these olympics were known for the Coldest opening Cermony in olympic history as well as the coldest closing cermony but one of the warmest for the actual games themselves due to the chinook winds. or is this just a calgayr legend that i've been hearing Philbentley 22:53, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

- I'm sure somewhere on the web you can find the tempurature for the day - I bet in some stats pages for the olymics. If not email enviroment Canada. -- I believe that was true. The opening was also the largest for a winter olympics. Prior to these games opening/closing was done in much smaller venues. [User:Themepark|Themepark]]

• • • Well having been there I can say that the Lillehammer closing ceremony was indeed very cold. And Salt Lake closing was cold and rainy... Hektor (talk) 18:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I had a copy of the final report and I vaguely remember it mentioning something like that. (talk) 14:34, 25 January 2008 (MST)

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Demonstration / Exhibition

The official report states: "Events included 10 medal sports ([..]); one demonstration sport (curling); two demonstration events (freestyle skiing and short track speed skating); and one exhibition event (disabled skiing)." Therefore Disabled skiing shouldn't be listed as a demonstration event, as exhibitions are even one step below demonstrations. -- Firefox13 (talk) 15:29, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

1988 Winter Olympics "Legacy" Section Needs Work

Where did that Toronto Star article come from? It makes it sound that Calgary was worst than Montreal financially. Frankly, if that was the case, then how in the world did they manage to get the money to maintain the facilities? And, why only them and not other Canadian media that claim Calgary was in the surplus? I think the Toronto Star article was made by false pretenses because I was told otherwise by the CODA (now called WinSport) authorities. Where is the proof of this bad legacy or is it just there to talk down another Canadian Olympic Games, like Montreal? Montreal was obvious, but the 1988 Winter Olympics legacy section needs more positive news or get rid of it altogether. I do not want to see lies as fact in this section. Why does it seem that any Olympic Games in Canada, Vancouver 2010 included, is always seen in the bad light in Wikipedia? Either make things positive more or get rid of it. You don't see such negativity on other Olympic pages here.

I've once again undone the massive removal of text. We don't just remove entire article sections because we don't think they're positive enough. The Toronto Star is a major Canadian newspaper, if they wrote an article it can be referenced here, whether or not it was "made by false pretenses" - verifiability is the standard, not truth. All Olympic games are scrutinized to see if they deliver value for money, meet their budgets, etc. so it's a legitimate topic of commentary here. Furthermore, the section doesn't say anything about a "bad legacy", it simply describes the legacy.

If you wish to add a few sentences about the current threat to ongoing operation of the legacy venues, do so, and use the Herald as a source. But don't just try to wipe the whole thing off the map. Franamax (talk) 19:02, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

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Cost

The sentence "Held at a price of C$829 million, the Calgary Olympics cost more to stage than any previous Games, summer or winter." couldn't be correct because the 1976 summer Olympics costed more than 1,5 billion (see here). Christophe95 (talk) 17:30, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

That cost included many things beyond the scope of the 1976 Olympics. Among them later renovations, repairs, interest, inflation and the like. The facility ultimately had that cost, but only a small portion of that figure related to the Montreal Olympics. The 1988 Games had a lower legacy cost because Calgary did not run into debt the same way Montreal did. Resolute 18:37, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

According to a 1978 article, the cost was already 1,4 billion. Christophe95 (talk) 16:02, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, fair enough. I will go back and check my source and see if I missed an aspect of context, and/or update appropriately. Thanks! Resolute 16:58, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

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there is not enough info on what happened on the actual olympics. can someone update it?

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