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For about $1.4B — should Hamilton host the Commonwealth Games?

Hosting the Commonwealth Games could cost about $1.4 billion. The chair of the Hamilton 100 committee says it's worth every penny. On Thursday at 1:15 p.m. Jasper Kujavsky and the Hamilton 100 bid manager Greg Maychak explain, during our Facebook Live, why they think it makes sense to spend so much money on an amateur sporting event.

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For about $1.4B — should Hamilton host the Commonwealth Games?

5 years ago
Duration 28:49
Hosting the Commonwealth Games could cost about $1.4 billion. The chair of the Hamilton 100 committee says it's worth every penny. Jasper Kujavsky and the Hamilton 100 bid manager Greg Maychak explain, during our Facebook Live, why they think it makes sense to spend so much money on an amateur sporting event.

Hosting the Commonwealth Games could cost about $1.425 billion. The vice-chair of the Hamilton 100 committee says it's worth every penny.

On Thursday at 1:15 p.m., vice-chair Jasper Kujavsky and Hamilton 100 committee bid manager Greg Maychak will explain, during our Facebook Live, why they think it makes sense to spend so much money on a single amateur sporting event.

The $1.425 billion estimate was provided by PJ Mercanti, another member of the Hamilton 100 committee, before the city's general issues committee on Wednesday morning. That is not far off the $1.3 billion estimate, according to the BBC, it will take to pay for the 2022 games in Birmingham, England.

The very first Commonwealth Games were held in Hamilton back in 1930 and were known then as the British Empire Games.

Hamilton is looking in to a bid for the 2030 games, in part, to bring the sporting event back to the city where it began a century earlier.

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