Nobody wants to host the Olympics: Calgary balking at 2026 bid is emblematic of wider trend

2026-03-03 - 11:53

It’s not that Calgary bid on the 2026 Winter Games and lost out to an Italian proposal. The city famously declined to bid at all, putting the idea to a plebiscite in November 2018 that saw more than half of voters opt against even trying to bring the Olympics back to the city that hosted the 1988 Winter Games.