‘Eddie the Eagle’ among Olympians cheering for a Calgary 2026 bid at rally
CALGARY — Mayor Naheed Nenshi says the naysayers have been winning the debate over whether Calgary should hold the Winter Olympics in 2026, but there’s still time to change the narrative before a non-binding vote on the bid next Tuesday.
Nenshi’s remarks capped off a pro-bid rally which featured a parade of Olympians and a deluge of 1988 nostalgia from Calgary’s first turn at playing host.
“We are, my friends, in the last week of an election campaign. It’s an election campaign that today we’re going to lose,” Nenshi told the crowd in a downtown convention centre Monday, a Team Canada scarf draped over his shoulders.
“But we have the power to turn that around. And that power is within every one of our hands,”