awesome pictures!!
Nobody learns nuttin’. They will continue to push for Olympics in Chitcago.
i’m just glad it’s all going to be different in Rio.
Why that country, after all the investment for world cup and olympics, will be booming for the next century!!
Why not make them like the moving carnivals and just re-use them?
Looks like it’s time for another Athens Olympics —
lot of money spent and for what?
Vikings stadium in 2020
sort of like Detroit....
It’s all about graft, payoffs, and the skim. Contractors made money and the politicians made money. The taxpayers are left with the bill.
Same as it ever was.
A girl I work with is from Bosnia. She said the Sarajevo site is the same way.
Give the Olympics a permanent location. Then you don’t have to re-invent the wheel every 4 years.
Exactly. I appreciate that for the athletes it is a big deal. But why should tax payers foot the bill for the athletes moment of glory.
I do not for a moment think that this glory is somehow also for the athletes native country because it is simply not true. The athletes are now basically free agents that can go to another country that will pay them better.
We should also consider that home owners, farmers or business owners lost their property so that these Olympic facilities could be built. And now the land is fallow for generations to come.
This is a sin against freedom, the taxpayer and the land itself.
And Montreal is stuck with a domed stadium whose roof can’t be closed.
Amazing. Awful. Angry-making.
Why don’t they have Olympics in Greece EVERY time. No other country needs to waste a dime building new extravaganza venues. Put the money into sprucing up this venue, which is at least “historically correct.”
But nooooo. Chest-pounding knuckle draggers who run governments want THEIR names on Olympic buildings.
If the IOC wasn’t so corrupt part of the bid process would include showing how the venues will be used after the games. But of course they are, so they don’t really care how the venues get used even during the games so long as there’s plenty of cash and hookers.
A place like North Texas already has all the stadiums and hotels they would need, no spend spending would be needed.
Cant the Olympics fund itself?
Ah the glory of fascist and socialist subsidized ventures.
Maybe they can sell tickets to tourists, like they do for the Parthenon. Only for this exibit, you can touch things if you dare and can take a chunk of it home with you.
they became a travesty when they started allowing professional players in.
before that they were merely revenue generators for the IOC, which is the only one to profit from perpetuating this farce which has lived past it’s sell-by date.
Bump