No one cares about it any more.
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On July 21 2023 19:05 DropBear wrote: Literally who cares about the Commonwealth Games. Hooray let's pay billions to host a third rate competition just to give the English royals an enormous ego trip as they look at all the countries they used to own. The question isn't why did he pull out, it's why did he bid for it in the first place. I don't have much interest in it personally, but if he pledged to host it he should have followed through with it.The 6.8 Billion cost was laughable considering Gold Coast hosted it in 2018 for 1.2 Billion. The latest now is broke Victoria is paying the Commonwealth Games committee $380 million in compensation for the cancellation. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/aug/19/commonwealth-games-victoria-to-pay-380m-in-compensation-after-cancelling-2026-event Daniel Andrews says $380m Commonwealth Games compensation ‘the best outcome Victoria could get’ | ||
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