OLYMPIC LESSONS FOR HOST CITIES

As Olympics excitement grows in the first week of the London 2012 Games, we in Vancouver watch with great interest, and occasional feelings of deja-vu. Last week in Atlantic Cities, I wrote about Vancouver’s 2010 Olympics experience with Olympic jitters and the host city funk, and the ability of the Games to change cities through the “power of the collective experience.”

In this post I include some broader thoughts that I couldn’t in AC for space reasons. I’ll focus on our many Olympic legacies, and key learnings around city-building for host cities and the Olympics movement overall.

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