Recession would have prevented 2014 bid, admits key official

GLASGOW would not have not bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games if they'd predicted the global economic crisis.

Louise Martin, chair of sportscotland and a leading member of the 2014 bid team, made her admission in an interview with The Herald, Glasgow.

She said: "I shrink from saying Glasgow wouldn't have done it, but it looked a lot healthier before this time of recession.

"I have to believe we will come through this. It will be challenging, but we will find ways of making it work. It would have been a much harder decision for London. They had virtually all their venues to build, whereas 70% of the Glasgow facilities for 2014 were in place."

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EXTERNAL LINK: The Herald: Slump ‘might have stopped our 2014 bid’

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