Lasting benefits of World Cup in Vancouver won’t reach level of 2010 Olympics, critics say

Vancouver organizers for the FIFA World Cup gathered media on Monday to show off a new field in southeast Vancouver that will be one of the two practice pitches for the games.

At a cost of $24-million, which included the price of digging up and replacing boggy peat under the existing surface, the field will eventually be carpeted in a special grass now being grown in the Fraser Valley.