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by ng7j5d9
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It's already been established that hosting the Olympics in the current fashion is generally a money loser for the host city. All of those resources expended to build state-of-the-art facilities, housing, transportation, etc...with rosy ideas of how they might be repurposed after the Olympics....which generally don't come to fruition. And that's when the Olympics actually occur, and the host city is able to gain some revenue from visitors coming and spending a considerable amount of money. If Tokyo builds the required infrastructure and then no one comes, I've got to think future host cities will re-think this madness. Personally I'd like to see a distributed Olympics, with mostly pre-existing facilities being used. Maybe swimming happens in Copenhagen, basketball in LA, beach volleyball in Phuket, etc. Maybe some events could be held in smaller countries or cities that had never been able to complete for a full Olympics before. A larger percentage of the world population would be local to some part of the Olympics, perhaps for once highlighting sameness rather than differences. Or screw it, we could just let dumb governments keep throwing piles of money at this nonsense. |
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Some of the highlights from the podcast on the 2028 LA Olympics:
* Only major construction that is occurring is an upgraded temporary track in the Coliseum, renovation on USC’s swimming arena, and building a train line to the airport (which, IIRC, was in the long term plans already and is just being re-prioritized). The track from the Coliseum will be broken down and split among various high schools who can benefit.
* There are some additional temporary structures going up, such as bleachers for beach volleyball.
* The LA games are doing what you suggested and are using existing venues for almost everything. UCLA dorms are going to be the Olympic Village and USC dorms will host media. USC, UCLA, MLS, NFL, and NHL/NBA arenas will be used to host various events. There is no brand new permanent construction.
[0] https://m.soundcloud.com/the-bill-simmons-podcast/mayor-eric...
[1] https://www.deseret.com/2017/2/4/20605641/utah-s-secret-sauc...