‘Devastating’ cost of Victoria’s Commonwealth Games bombshell
Victoria’s bombshell decision to abandon its commitment to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games will have wide-reaching financial ramifications for agencies, marketers, brands and the athletes themselves, experts warn.
Premier Daniel Andrews fronted the media in Melbourne yesterday to announce the state was bowing out due to an almost tripling of the projected cost of staging the global event.
I’m sure its disappointing for folk on the gravy train, (interesting there’s no athlete comments in there, just the blazers), but its the right decision for taxpayers. 2nd tier event with top tier cost just doesn’t make sense.
“This is a significant blow to the hundreds of athletes…”
Let’s be generous here and say their use of the word ‘hundreds’ implies less than 1000, but we’re being generous so we’re going to assume 999 athletes.
$7-billion / 999 = $7,007,007
Is the implication here that we should be devastated that the government isn’t spending over $7,000,000 per Australian athlete on hosting this event?
as long as we still get to make them stadiums and sporting centres that were planned for the games, and we’re going ahead with them still as stated, its a win-win!
Dan Andrews just saved us 5 billion imaginary dollaridoos! Go Dan!