#9. 2010 Vancouver Winter Games
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Cost (in 2021 dollars): $8.9 billionIn 2003, voters in Vancouver voted to accept their 2010 Winter Olympics bid if they were awarded it. A few months later, that became a reality with Vancouver, Canada, beating out Pyeongchang, South Korea, and…