Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

...carnival moves on: Incredible photos show the decaying former Olympic sites across the world...
Daily Mail ^ | 8. | LUCY MAE BEERS

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

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: olympics
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-84 next last
To: DUMBGRUNT

The Olympics should be in the U.S. because most of the facilities are already in use by Universities. And for big events? We can use our football stadiums and basketball/hockey stadium. While in other countries, they have to build them from scratch and then abandon them after the Olympics end.


21 posted on 08/09/2016 8:20:33 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

It might be better to just keep the summer Olympics in Greece for good and find one perfect place for the winter Olympics. Keep the facilities up and make them a quality destination. Just a thought.


22 posted on 08/09/2016 8:21:51 AM PDT by Swede Girl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

Other large countries don’t have university sports facilities?
Or giant stadiums for soccer, cricket, etc?


23 posted on 08/09/2016 8:21:55 AM PDT by nascarnation
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

As I pointed out, here in Dallas/Fort Worth we’ve got enough venues with the High School football stadiums alone.


24 posted on 08/09/2016 8:22:15 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: TexasFreeper2009

I think Atlanta did a good job on planning for use of the venues after the event.


25 posted on 08/09/2016 8:22:37 AM PDT by kalee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

Yeah it’s crazy that the World Cup will be held in Qatar in 2022. The country is so small that it’s not worth keeping one stadium after the World Cup ends.


26 posted on 08/09/2016 8:22:49 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

World Cup in a place where you can’t drink and see scantily-clad women, yeah that’s a good idea. /s


27 posted on 08/09/2016 8:23:46 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

Didn’t most of the Olympic venues in America keep getting used for other things.

I was just at the kayaking facility in Ocoee is still being used and fairly popular.


28 posted on 08/09/2016 8:23:57 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nascarnation

Other countries don’t have their universities compete in sports the way we do there in the U.S. I’m sure they have club sports, but they have no stadiums like University of Michigan stadium which can hold over 100,000 fans.


29 posted on 08/09/2016 8:24:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Disambiguator

The ski jump in Oslo from the 1952 Winter Olympics is still in use.


30 posted on 08/09/2016 8:25:05 AM PDT by the_Watchman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: T-Bone Texan

You mean The War of Southern Treason?


31 posted on 08/09/2016 8:25:12 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Vigilanteman

That’s the thing that really makes the article ring a bit hollow, even though the point they are making is a legit one.

Showing venues in places hit by devastating war doesn’t count.And the ski-jump in Italy is over 60 years old! It likely wouldn’t even be safe to use anyway.

What happened to the Moscow venues? Mexico City? Seoul? Barcelona? and Sydney?

LA and Atlanta used existing infrastructure so they are far better off.


32 posted on 08/09/2016 8:25:34 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

The site in Guangzhou, China is still looking fantastic. Visited last year. An amazing city.


33 posted on 08/09/2016 8:25:34 AM PDT by Tuxedo (Trump/Pence 2016)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: relictele

No price is too high for the world’s ‘elites’ to look good in each others eyes... (well, since the price is paid by the struggling citizens of these countries anyway - and NEVER by the corrupt ‘elites’.)


34 posted on 08/09/2016 8:25:34 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Tired of 'fake outrage' deployed by democrats and their MSM gimp platoon?" - Kurt Schlichter)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: MarDav
Conspicuously absent from this list are any of the major venues from the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Amazingly, they are still be used some 18 years later.
35 posted on 08/09/2016 8:25:58 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: the_Watchman

We went to Innsbruck a few years ago, and saw the ski jump.


36 posted on 08/09/2016 8:26:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: butlerweave
What's this 'Montreal is still paying for their Olympics' dreck? CANADA, more precisely ALBERTA is still paying for QUEBEC's Olympics!
37 posted on 08/09/2016 8:26:26 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

I think they will have certain areas zoned for World Cup only and fans will be able to purchase alcohol. So that way British fans will be willing to travel to Qatar and spend their money.


38 posted on 08/09/2016 8:26:47 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: T-Bone Texan

Most countries would have gone medieval on Lee and Jeff Davis’ ass, but my Northern ancestors gave you Southern snowflakes a break. Of course if Johnny Reb hadn’t lost the war they started, I guess Northern aggression wouldn’t have mattered.


39 posted on 08/09/2016 8:27:26 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Disambiguator

So is Atlanta.


40 posted on 08/09/2016 8:27:59 AM PDT by Ingtar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-84 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson