All these medals floating around with the Olympics this week have me thinking, “What’s a gold medal really worth?” Turns out I’m not the only one with things that glitter on the brain. The Wall Street Journal’s Brett Arends takes a look at whether all the Olympic medalists just should melt down their prizes and [...]
The opening ceremonies kick off the Winter Olympics in Vancouver tonight, but the lead up to the games has been fraught with concerns over cost and whether the games will pay off for the Canadian economy. PRI’s The World reporter Jason Margolis spent some time in Vancouver recently and I spoke with him over GChat [...]
It’ll cost a lot to host the Winter Olympics — over $6 billion CDN, to be exact. Will the Olympics pay off for Vancouver? The World’s Jason Margolis looks at the numbers behind the games in the first of a series of pieces. While the Vancouver Olympics are costing a pretty Canadian penny, the Globe [...]
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