The Road to 2026: Vancouver's 2010 Legacy

We're into the second part of our trip down Olympic memory lane. Last time, we looked at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. Those games saw a scrappy little oil town host the world and get a few pieces of sporting infrastructure out of the whole process (along with a nice sense of community).

The 1988 Olympics made money (in terms of their operations), and the reports of corruption were rather minor. Now, there are two common explanations for this:

Hey, the corruption and chaos of Russia and Brazil were unique to the business and political cultures of those countries.

Hey, the IOC only got really corrupt in recent years.

So to test whether it's the place (the host country) or the time (recent…