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St. Moritz, Davos Referendum On 2022 Winter Olympics
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Feb 28, 2013 09:53pm |
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| News Date | Friday, March 1, 2013 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Voters in the Swiss canton of Graubuenden, where St. Moritz and Davos are located, will be voting in a referendum Sunday on whether to support a bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
Joerg Schild, President of the Swiss Olympic Committee, told a news conference Monday, "we want to bring the Winter Olympics back to the snow, it would be great if you could sit in the hotel and watch it snowing outside".
Graubuenden 2022 Organizing Committee member Gian Gill added, "I was in Sochi recently and it was 18 celsius in winter".
Schild said the results of the referendum "will be very close".
Bid organizers say that the estimated investments of 4.3 billion Swiss francs ($4.62 billion U.S.) will be repaid by the boost in tourism which will result from staging the event. Of this, 1.5 billion would be on transport on sporting infrastructure, and 2.64 billion would be on running the Games.
They say that the bid is sustainable and environmentally friendly and that much of the necessary infrastructure already exists.
But opponents of the bid are concerned about the environmental impact of new buildings, ski lifts and other infrastructure on the Alpine environment, and that the initial budget will spiral out of control, as invariably happens with major sporting events. |
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