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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I reckon we should be using bigger numbers.

A regional games was going to cost 2,600 million dollars. Up to 6,000 million dollars. Over a million dollars per athlete, plus all the government funding over the years to train these people.

Yeah, good call to axe it