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In a world of cutthroat competition and zero-sum game strategies, there are few winners.

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Other cities in former colonies of the British Empire, have dropped out of the race, realizing they couldnB次元官网网址檛 finance a coliseum for 21st-century gladiators.

To suggest that Victoria should cash in on this B次元官网网址渙ne-time chanceB次元官网网址� smacks of profiteering from the public purse. In B.C., 59 per cent of residents live paycheque to paycheque, more than anywhere else in Canada. In this city, province, and country, we canB次元官网网址檛 put a roof over everyoneB次元官网网址檚 head. We neither need nor can afford this sports spectacle.

Does anyone recall who picked up the tab for the failed Olympic Village in Vancouver? A city still unaffordable to its residents?

Victoria Adams

Victoria