Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 24, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july a7 lets be careful with games costs Panama games offer fabulous but event growing beyond our Means by John Douglas City editor cities wait 30 years for an Opportunity like the pan american games to come in two Winnipeg will get its Chance to climb on to the world stage and showcase itself As a destination for tourists and in addition to More than coaches and officials that will attend the 16 Day sporting the 1999 games will be a Bonanza for tourism in the associated Trade shows and cultural festivals will also highlight local industries and groups opening up new markets and the total economic Impact is Clear million in benefits and that includes More than million in direct according to a Manitoba Bureau of statistics Learned lesson but that Doest mean we should give away the store simply to Host what organizers Are calling the third largest sporting event on North american Winnipeg should have Learned its lesson from the jets debacle More than a year taxpayers in this province Are prepared to support sporting facilities but their tolerance has its some would say calling for million in government funding for a million event is doing just the 13th Panama games has created a Host of special interests that will play themselves out Over the months and years the games essentially Start today when delegates from the 42member pan american sports organization begin four Days of meet Ings in Winnipeg and both the City and province Are on after pushing for hosting both the City and the province have a vested interest in putting on a great show even while costs Are escalating and revenues Are those closely aligned with the games say news backgrounder that in recent months some City officials have expressed concern about the games finance but Winnipeg resolve has been stiffened by Canadian olympic officials who have quietly made it Clear that without More they have the authority and votes at the Board table to move the games to another there have been suggestions that if Manitoba cant handle the games they could still be moved one official Why is the Canadian olympic committee so insistent because it wants to keep latin american countries Happy in order to gain support for a Canadian bid for the 2008 escalating costs the problem with the 1999 pan am games has More to do with escalating costs than fail ing most associated with the games believe corporate Canada will step up to the plate and deliver More than the million in sponsorship what local organizers cant control is the size of the one year the Panama business plan envisioned coaches and officials participating in 35 the latest plan Calls for coaches and officials participating in 41 the problem with that is that every person added to the list increases the costs of trans meals and a paso directive requires Manitoba to pick up these costs including individual transportation from the country of its a problem that has already forced local organizers to scout out additional accommodations and enlist the help of the american olympic there has been talk of a separate athletes Village in Minneapolis to House participants until their no standards paso regulations have caused other prob lems because the organization sets no Stan Dards for athletes to in other the games will be sponsoring athletes who meet no International performance remember the jamaican Bob sled team anyone who has managed a household Bud get knows you cant stick to it if there Are open ended that is what local organizers Are trying to it Hast worked through seven drafts so Winnipeg is capable of hosting a successful but to do everyone is going to have to bleed a provincial and Federal governments should provide More funding to the but paso should also play a constructive As a body it must help organizers by finding a Way to impose some kind of Cap on participants and it should look at reducing the num ber of sports being 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