VANCOUVER - Rising costs have pushed up the budget for the 2010 Winter Games and forced organizers to make some spending cuts.
The Vancouver Games organizing committee has released a new $1.75-billion budget, about $1 million higher than its last financial plan.
Organizers say the increase is due, in part, to the fact that they have a better sense of how much things will cost them now than they did two years ago.
The higher costs are being covered by the committee's rainy day fund and better-than-expected revenue in some areas.
But organizers also acknowledge some of the expected money-makers are no longer a sure thing because of a faltering economy.
The committee made cuts to its own operations to find savings to cover a worst-case economic scenario.
