Here are a couple more quotes from McAllister:

World Trade Center study: 100k plus jobs could be created if Olympics held in Tahoe/Sac. Sac could host hockey/ice skating + athlete housing

Sac City Econ Develop Dir: Arena “would be required” to land the bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Adds PBP not fit for US Olympic Com

Awesome. Everything helps.

getting us a swing vote or two. I can see McCarty, who will be running for assembly soon, and maybe Pannel getting on board with the new ESC.

Sacramento doesn’t need the olympics. If the magoofs want the olympics so much why don’t they pay for it. We need roads and policemen and homeless shelters!

I originally thought this was the secret investor which turned out to be Burkle. But I argued that we have just about all the infrastructure in place for the winter games except an arena. The thing is this will bring in jobs, but it will bring in huge dollars. I originally thought the committee would be a major part of adding cash to the building. Not sure if that is still possibility. But again Olympic games here goes beyond simple regional support.

Some old info about what the games got Vancouver: PricewaterhouseCoopers’ study estimated a total contribution to the BC economy of $2.5 billion of Gross Domestic Product, and as well created 45,000 jobs and contributed an additional $463 million to the tourism industry while venue construction by VANOC and 3rd parties added $1.22 billion to the economy.

…he’s not going to want to be the guy who voted to kill the prospects of having the winter games return to NorCal. I pretty sure we may have just found a way to make the swing vote swing kids.

The economic impact of the winter games would be outstanding for this community. Assuming the ESC gets done, I wonder what our chances of actually landing the games would be? I’m sure these events are prized by many cities throughout the world and our competition would be stiff. Regardless, to be considered for something like this would be awesome and gives hope for future large events such as the return of the ncaa tourney or a DNC/RNC to sacramento.

Proliferation of crack babies expected to be at an all-time high.

Thanks but no thanks

VIII 1960 United States Squaw Valley, United States
IX 1964 Austria Innsbruck, Austria
X 1968 France Grenoble, France
XI 1972 Japan Sapporo, Japan
XII 1976 Austria Innsbruck, Austria
XIII 1980 United States Lake Placid, United States
XIV 1984 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
XV 1988 Canada Calgary, Canada
XVI 1992 France Albertville, France
XVII 1994 Norway Lillehammer, Norway
XVIII 1998 Japan Nagano, Japan
XIX 2002 United States Salt Lake City, United States
XX 2006 Italy Turin, Italy
XXI 2010 Canada Vancouver, Canada
XXII 2014 Russia Sochi, Russia
XXIII 2018 South Korea Pyeongchang, South Korea
XXIV 2022 TBD (2015)

In looking at this list, a U.S. city would have a good shot at the 2022 games IMO

I know SF was a semi-finalist for the US Bid for the Summer Games that ended up going to London (New York ended up with the US Bid… stupid). Now that they’ll have a huge new stadium in Santa Clara, a new arena in Sac would be very attractive for some events (probably preliminary stuff, assuming they’d build a new arena somewhere directly in the Bay Area as the real centerpiece of the whole deal). Plus, we already have world class venues for track (Sac State is top 3 in the country for that, though for the Olympics it would still likely be prelim stuff) and rowing (Lake Natoma one of the top in the country), world class cycling experience (there’s outdoor cycling in the Olympics, right?), even baseball prelims at Raley Field. How badass would it be to have the Summer and Winter Olympic Games both in Norcal within a couple decades? That would be a real “eff you” to the people who scoff at our pride in being halfway between Tahoe and the Bay.