Montreal struggling

[Phil Tanner]

Seems they have a funding shortfall for the 2005 world championships - see

http://montreal.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=qc-swimming20041208

Long Beach touted as venue if Canada can't find the cash.

[crawler]

$60 million dollar budget!!!
I see they have had $38 million in public monies already - what on earth have they spent that on1 Seems a lot of money for a big hole filled with water ;)

glad its not just UK that have theses fiascos ala Picketts Lock..

[Taxiandbank]

$60 million dollar budget!!!
I see they have had $38 million in public monies already - what on earth have they spent that on1 Seems a lot of money for a big hole filled with water ;)

glad its not just UK that have theses fiascos ala Picketts Lock..


Doesn't the pool come free under the FINA sponsorship deal?

[glen_75]

The curse continues. This is the same bureaucratic morass that plagued the olympic games in 76.

Montreal is a wonderful sportstown but the business acumen of event organisers is, as ever, incompetent.