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To: EveningStar

From what I understand, hosting the Olympics has never really been a winning proposition for any city.


20 posted on 09/18/2017 9:55:35 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: proud American in Canada

A great example of ‘losing’ on the host-job...would be the 2004 Greece Olympics.

If you go into Athens, the airport was built in the 2001 to 2004 period. While two-billion Euro was spent on the airport...you have to figure that roughly a quarter of that went to corruption or fake work.

The ultra-modern subway from the airport into the city? Same deal.

Probably two-thirds of the venues built for the Athens Olympics lay there today....with no real use.


48 posted on 09/20/2017 12:40:25 AM PDT by pepsionice
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