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Durban Olympic Bid: Worth 500 Billion Rand, Cost Unknown
From the BBN segment “South Africa picks Durban for Olympic, Paralympic bid”, cut down to under a minute.
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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: Yahoo Sports.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleySouth Africa wants to be the first African country to host the Olympics, and it picked Durban, built around the fifty-six thousand seat stadium from the twenty ten World Cup.
Chip DarnellThe bid is valued at five hundred billion rand, the formal announcement says, and officials say they can't yet estimate what hosting would cost.
Chip DarnellSo who pays?
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyLook, a five hundred billion rand number with no price attached, that's a roster with no jersey numbers.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyI'm telling you, that's the most Olympic sentence ever written.
Chip DarnellDurban was stripped of the 2022 Commonwealth Games for missing its financial commitments. I'd start by confirming who's holding the receipt.
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