World | 2010 Vancouver Olympics Newest Bailout: 2010 Olympics Vancouver games get $369M loan approved By Jason Farago Posted Jan 19, 2009 11:42 AM CST Copied The mascots for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, from left, Miga, Quatchi and Sumi pose for photographers following their debut to students in Surrey, British Columbia, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward) The global recession is putting the 2010 Olympics Games in Vancouver in peril, writes Canada's Globe and Mail. This weekend the provincial parliament in British Columbia passed an emergency bill that allows the host city to borrow $369 million to make sure the athletes' village will be ready in time. The original lender to Vancouver cut off funding last fall, and the city has been subsisting on high-interest bridge loans. Both the federal and the provincial government had refused to help Vancouver pay for further construction, leaving the city to pay $70,000 a day in interest alone. The government insisted that the city will be ready to host the winter Games in February 2010, but one opposition politician who opposed the bill laced into Vancouver for overspending. "Let's call this what it is," she said; "it is a corporate bailout." Read These Next "Admiral Piett" of the Star Wars universe died from COVID. Shooter opens fire on Texas Border Patrol Trump voter who supported mass deportations could be deported herself. Rescuer in floods gets a poignant question. Report an error