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by mym1990 1596 days ago
Money talks. The Olympics are often used as a form of gaining geopolitical goodwill and laundering money through extraordinary inflation of costs. Both the Beijing(2008) and Sochi(2014) Olympics cost north of 45 billion dollars. In comparison the Olympics in Turin and Vancouver were 4.5 and 7.6. Some of cost differences can be explained by population differences, but not by a factor of 10x.