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

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

[Rodamala]

And when describing the USA...fill in the blank, as I am hard-pressed anymore. I guess there aren't rockets raining down on us daily... which is nice... but I was there when the twin towers came down.

Its a country that would be a crap hole were it not for...

[Hugin]

I think the Greek tourism board can turn this into a positive. New slogan...

VISIT GREECE—WE HAVE NEW RUINS!

[SeekAndFind]

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

Well, I am basing it on this site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_the_Olympic_Games

[Moltke]

Most of those photos must be old - I’m pretty sure I saw them years ago. Like, a year or two after the 2004 games. Yes, it crumbled that quickly.

Not that that would stop BI from trying to make it look recent to gather some site hits...scumbags.

[OldNewYork]

Agree. I’d vote for having at least the summer Olympics permanently in Athens.

[Straight Vermonter]

And Montreal is stuck with a domed stadium whose roof can’t be closed.

It can't be opened. But it doesn't matter since it has so many rips in it that it doesn't amount to much anyway.

[Straight Vermonter]

Atlanta was profitable but people whined that it was too commercialized. I guess people would rather have crazy tax bills than see a McDonalds logo on a sign.

[Professional Engineer]

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

We sure have the fatally flawed $60 million fubar stadium to start!

[AdmSmith]

and Sochi was in ruins even before it was opened: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/02/2014_winter_olympics_sochi_problems.html

Russia spent $51 billion preparing the Black Sea resort for the Games, some $30 billion was “consumed”.