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After Calgary voters rejected a bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Tuesday night’s plebiscite, proponents of hosting the Games say it’s unlikely the city will consider another bid for 2030.

However, supporters say they do see the city hosting another Winter Games in the future, if there’s community support behind it.

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Scott Hutcheson, the chair of Calgary’s bid corporation, said he doesn’t think the city should immediately shift its focus to pursuing the 2030 Winter Games.

“I don’t think it’s 2030,” Hutcheson said. “I think you’ve got to put your pencil down for seven years. You don’t put it down for three years.

“Use the work later, but you can’t put a city through this every four years. My view would be let it go, accept the result, move on and come back with a bid maybe in seven years.”

Out of 304,774 ballots cast, 171,750 or 56.4 per cent were against Calgary hosting the 2026 Olympics, with 132,832 voting in favour. City council must still formally vote to end the bid, but senior governments have said their financial support of the Games was contingent on the endorsement of Calgarians in a plebiscite.