What The Abandoned Venues From The Athens Olympics Look Like 10 Years Later

Business Insider ^ | 08/08/2014 | Tony Manfred

[God luvs America]

awful comparison....

difference is the venues in Chicago or Los Angeles or Salt Lake City, Vancouver, Calgary, Melbourne, Atlanta are put to good use after the Olympics...

Greece was given the olympics for sentimental reasons- not common sense. Its a country that would be a crap hole were it not for tourism...

[God luvs America]

Sarajevo venues were destroyed in the war...they were fighting from the ice rink...

[lavaroise]

Cant the Olympics fund itself?

Ah the glory of fascist and socialist subsidized ventures.

[God luvs America]

btw- you notice all the cities you mentioned turned profits after LA in ‘84?? Know why? One man- Peter Ubberoff who had the common sense to bring sponsorship into the Olympics....when its run like a business, as it should be, they lessen the potential for economic damage...

[GeronL]

South Korea has a winter Olympics coming up, hopefully they don’t mess it up as bad as Sochi Russia with its fake hotels and stuff

[Vehmgericht]

Will people visit these sites in 2,000 years? They are our Colosseum and Parthenon.

[Veto!]

the drivebyathalon being the featured event

LMAO

[jimmygrace]

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.

[nikos1121]

I can’t open these photos at work, cana someone post them?

[GeronL]

Why LA?

Why not in the US?

[camle]

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.

[rockrr]

Bump

[ChildOfThe60s]

Greece’s GDP in 2004 was $228 billion. Government expenditure in that year was 45.52% of the GDP (holy smokes!).

Thus 5% of the entire country’s GDP that year was spent on the Olympics.

And they can’t understand why they are in the toilet?

If the US spent 5% of its GDP (about $800 billion this year) on the Olympics would that cause an uproar?

[W.]

Surely you've seen the Formula 1 track being built @ Sochi. How many years until the boys from Top Gear pay a visit to the abandoned ruins of Sochi Autodrom?

[GeronL]

Interesting idea. Could work.

[TexasGunLover]

A place like North Texas already has all the stadiums and hotels they would need, no spend spending would be needed.

North Texans have no desire for a circus like that. We're just praying they don't bring the Super Bowl back here- ever.

[ConservativeDude]

Seriously, London made money? That is surprising, and somewhat encouraging.

[luvbach1]

Yes, Greece would be an appropriate choice, assuming they could run it (or have its management shared). And its status as an economic basket case shows the need for the revenue.

[dfwgator]

Same is true of Beijing. And it will be the same for Rio.

[dfwgator]

The World Cup in Russia is going to be a disaster.

Nobody is going to want to go to the games outside of perhaps Moscow and St Petersburg.