This is why I think that individual sport permanent venues should be established worldwide. (Or use venues that are already in existence)
USA get basketball.
Russia gets track
Europe gets soccer.
Australia gets swimming.
Or something like that.
Stop this drain of taxpayer money and just let the athletes compete.
I think that’s where it’s headed.
Hosting the Olympics is always an economic disaster. There is no reason not to use the venues long after. Why can’t the stadiums be used by professional sports or give them to the local high schools or colleges? Same with the swimming pools or turn them into city run public pools. Let a hotel chain buy out the dorms and charge extra to stay in the Gold Medal rooms. Huge parking lots should be a cinch to sale to developers since the land has already been leveled. Bottom line, it’s ridiculous not to continue to use them or set up permanent ones as you said. Ack, but then you’d have complaints about the home field advantage.
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.