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Calgary’s “should we bid on the Olympics” debate seems more akin to watching a 10,000-metre race than to any comparative Winter Games event.

That’s the one where everyone runs around and around in circles for a seeming eternity — always arriving back where they started, as the restless crowd silently prays to hear the bell, so they can finally see some real action.

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OK, so this past week we did actually get developments, though we’re a long way from any final lap.

We found out the wording of the plebiscite question we’ll have before us on Nov. 13: a choice to mark your X next to “I am for Calgary hosting” or “I am against Calgary hosting.”

And we also discovered who’ll be the new CEO of Calgary’s $30-million funded Olympic bid corporation: Mary Moran’s taking a leave of absence from the head of Calgary Economic Development to assume the role.

Good for Moran, although doesn’t it seem that all manner of folk have been relentlessly getting appointed to some version of a city Olympic-bid gabfest for the past few years? Yet, despite all the comings and goings, we remain no closer to getting hard information on what a bid would really cost, what such spending would actually bring in long-term benefits to our city and where that money would come from.