A great place to stay for a weekend.
Posted on 08/09/2016 8:07:52 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
As the Rio Olympics kicks off, eeire photographs of the sites of past Olympics games have been revealed In Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, bobsled from 1984 Games was vandalised and is used by mountain bikers There are similar site in Athens, Greece, with a swimming pool in the 2004 Olympic Village filled with brown water In Germany, the site of the 1936 Games, the windows at the athletes village have been boarded up with timber
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“The history of Arlington? You mean the part where they stole a man’s land and filled with dead soldiers as a slap in his face?”
...Interestingly the Lee family eventually won their lawsuit against the government. From Smithonian.com Nov 2009:
Asserting ownership of the property, Lee asked the Circuit Court of Alexandria, Virginia, to evict all trespassers occupying it as a result of the 1864 auction. As soon as U.S. Attorney General Charles Devens heard about the suit, he asked that the case be shifted to federal court, where he felt the government would get a fairer hearing. In July 1877, the matter landed in the lap of Judge Robert W. Hughes of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Hughes, a lawyer and newspaper editor, had been appointed to the bench by President Grant.
After months of legal maneuvering and arguments, Hughes ordered a jury trial. Custis Lee’s team of lawyers was headed by Francis L. Smith, the Alexandrian who had strategized with Lee’s father years before. Their argument turned upon the legality of the 1864 tax sale. After a six-day trial, a jury found for Lee on January 30, 1879: by requiring the “insurrectionary tax” to be paid in person, the government had deprived Custis Lee of his property without due process of law. “The impolicy of such a provision of law is as obvious to me as its unconstitutionality,” Hughes wrote. “Its evil would be liable to fall not only upon disloyal but upon the most loyal citizens. A severe illness lasting only ninety or a hundred days would subject the owner of land to the irreclaimable loss of its possession.”
The government appealed the verdict to the Supreme Court—which ruled for Lee again. On December 4, 1882, Associate Justice Samuel Freeman Miller, a Kentucky native appointed by President Lincoln, wrote for the 5 to 4 majority, holding that the 1864 tax sale had been unconstitutional and was therefore invalid.
The Lees had retaken Arlington.
This left few options for the federal government, which was now technically trespassing on private property. It could abandon an Army fort on the grounds, roust the residents of Freedmen’s Village, disinter almost 20,000 graves and vacate the property. Or it could buy the estate from Custis Lee—if he was willing to sell it.
He was. Both sides agreed on a price of $150,000, the property’s fair market value. Congress quickly appropriated the funds. Lee signed papers conveying the title on March 31, 1883, which placed federal ownership of Arlington beyond dispute. The man who formally accepted title to the property for the government was none other than Robert Todd Lincoln, secretary of war and son of the president so often bedeviled by Custis Lee’s father. If the sons of such adversaries could bury past arguments, perhaps there was hope for national reunion.
Corporatism: Taxpayers foot the billion dollars to build these things so corporations can make money on the event.
In 1936, the Olympic Village was constructed specifically for the Games and this building was used to house female athletes
But the Brandenburg buildings have since been stripped of the outer walls, windows and doors and have been left as a shell of cement
Those are clearly totally different buildings! LOL.
Thanks for this post.
Then it would stop being the Olympics. Part of the point of it is the quad-annual gathering. Really what needs to happen is the IOC needs to start funding it, they make tons of money from the TV deals and other junk, it’s time for them to stop being FIFA and use that money for something other than hookers and blow.
Collegiate sports, at least high level collegiate sports that can seat lots of spectators, is a very American thing. And of course with the number of colleges we have there’s TONS of those facilities. Other places have a couple of giant stadiums, but sports just is not as big a business in the rest of the world as it is here. We’re the only place with single metro areas that have multiple 70,000 seat + stadiums just there and ready to be used. We’re kind of crazy.
A great place to stay for a weekend.
Waste of money.
Have they done anything with all the athlete housing that had to be built?
Once again weeping over negro chattel slavery is hypocrisy's playground.
To put it bluntly no sane man gives a fig that negroes were slaves. Most people do not care. Negro slavery is over! Done with! Gone away! Now please as I don't wish to engage in senseless arguments- Good Bye.
I didn’t notice what they did with the athlete housing but I believe it was converted to a Correctional facility?
There was no signs of decay or dilapidation when I passed through. Very pristine area. I’m sure they could host the games again at some future time.
Just a small part of the equation.
The entire package was worth $4.38 billion, making it the most expensive television rights deal in Olympic history. NBC paid $775 million for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and $1.23 billion for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
And other rights...
The IOC does not pay the performers (athletes), or security, or much of anything else.
Where does the money go???
I think it is well built, just built in an era when multi-purpose stadiums were still the rage . . . the same reason that Pittsburgh blew up a fairly young Three Rivers Stadium back in 2000.
After watching beach volleyball, I can understand the need for condoms.
excellent post, thank you.
What a ridiculous waste of money. I’m glad that the plan to have the olympics in Boston was scrapped.
A friend of mine just travelled through Barcelona. He reported they still make good use of the facilities they built.
I would have thought they would have used Camp Nou for the Olympic Stadium.
“Lake Placid is also well kept-—and beautiful.”
It’s the mecca of youth hockey. To play on the 1980 rink is something kids remember all their lives.
Sarajevo was where it all began to die.
Remember “Ethnic Cleansing” from the Clintons?
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