The Canadian city of Calgary officially announced its refusal to accept the Olympic Games-2026.
According to insidethegames. biz, all 15 members of the city council voted against this idea and, as a result, withdrew their application.
It is noted that the main reason for cancellation of the application became huge financial costs..
Earlier, residents of the city voted against the holding of the Winter Olympics in Calgary. For the corresponding decision, 56.4% of people voted.
About 133 thousand people supported the idea of ??holding the Olympics in Calgary.
Interestingly, Calgary lost about 700 million Canadian dollars in investment as a result of refusing to hold the Olympics..
The International Olympic Committee will announce the venue for the 2026 Winter Olympics in June 2019. Now the main candidates for its holding Stockholm and Milan.
Recall that the Olympic Games 2018 were held in the South Korean city of Pkhenchkhan.