Posted on 08/09/2016 8:07:52 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
As the Rio Olympics kicks off, eeire photographs of the sites of past Olympics games have been revealed In Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, bobsled from 1984 Games was vandalised and is used by mountain bikers There are similar site in Athens, Greece, with a swimming pool in the 2004 Olympic Village filled with brown water In Germany, the site of the 1936 Games, the windows at the athletes village have been boarded up with timber
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Also recall the history of Arlington National Cemetery.
I think Montreal is still paying for their Olympics
“Hey can we have a two-week party at the house you spent five years building on your own nickel? Of course, you’ll be responsible for food, beverages, security, cleanup and any remaining debt on the property. Also, we get a private upgraded bathroom and stand first in line at the bar and table.”
What a deal!
And just think of the carbon footprint of these games!
More than ever it is apparent that the Olympics are scam designed to create great profits for the elites and to screw the common man.
The history of Arlington? You mean the part where they stole a man’s land and filled with dead soldiers as a slap in his face?
The War of Northern Aggression has a lot of abhorrent history, perpetrated by both sides, but really mostly the north.
Citizens of third world hellholes et al are granted the privilege of allowing their corrupt elites to look BIG on the world state. It's ‘THE TACKY CLINTONS’ writ large...
This is why I think that individual sport permanent venues should be established worldwide. (Or use venues that are already in existence)
USA get basketball.
Russia gets track
Europe gets soccer.
Australia gets swimming.
Or something like that.
Stop this drain of taxpayer money and just let the athletes compete.
This is an incredible waste. They should at least hold it at the same place more than once.
Sarajevo kind of gets a pass. Berlin is a whole other story altogether.
And anything before the 80s cant really be expected to last forever. However, Munich’s Olympic park has seemed to have held up quite well and actually doesn’t look dated.
When beach volleyball and golf are considered Olympic sports and the biggest concern seems to involve providing adequate condoms, could it be that the Olympics have outlived their time?
MANY of those things could have been repurposed for local civilian uses with a little creativity and some advance planning of the locations chosen.
This is just wasteful.
I think that’s where it’s headed.
For another, I would think most of them would have been pounded to rubble during World War II.
They should go back to the events that were at the 68 Games and get rid of everything else, especially events with the word “Synchronized” in them.
s’why we still eat black-eyed-peas at New Years.
The Winter Olympic facilities at Park City, Utah are still being used for training and are in fine condition. That’s probably one of the exceptions.
I’m for moving it back to Greece. For perpetuity. It would be a huge shot in the arm for the Greek economy, gets the Games back to their historic founding site, and the permanent infrastructure would be kept up nice there. It’s the moving around that create the problems cited in this article.
Atlanta did a good job with their Olympic village and converting it after the Games.
Almost every major American city is capable of hosting the games with just a few additions, but the IOC doesn’t want that. More opportunity for graft and kickbacks when you have to build from scratch.
All the concrete and it's removal!!!
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