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Im confused with the costings of the Commonwealth games.....Dan says it will now cost 7 billion yet the previous CG in 2022 were about 1.5 Billion and the estimated cost for 2026 was originally 2.6 Billion by the Labor Government.
Its not like Victoria is part of a 3rd world country with no infrastructure.....even allowing for cost over runs where is the extra 4.4 Billion being spent?

Actually, the more relevant previous games was Brisbane 2018 that cost about $2B, but that was before COVID, it was an unrealistically low estimate that the games could be done for the same price post COVID.

btw., $1.5B (£778M) for Birmingham is most likely a highly dodgy figure, it's asserted that opportunistically they buried a lot of the costs related to operations in special COVID related budgets to make things look rosy!

Personally, I think it's a good thing, the games have become too fat with bureaucracy and management fees, much like the Olympics and Soccer, the $ have become crazy for what is fundamentally a big athletics meet.

People say it's the end of the games, but the sports will continue, the profiteering won't!