Do you really think the kind of bureaucrats that run the IOC will remember any lessons they might have learned from this Olympics very long into the future.
The mantra of "yes some mistakes were made, but China is different now" will start in the not so distant future.
They will come up with an inept committee that is supposed to find ways to avoid the problems of the 2008 games. China will promise to handle such things differently. All past sins will be forgiven.
Don’t forget the 2014 winter olympics in Russia. I’ve heard its off to its predictable start with Putin and his Kremlin mobsters seizing all the land in the area for themselves to develop and kicking out farmers who lived there for generations without any compensation. The TV networks. The international sponsors. The organizers. I can only imagine the bribes that are going to have to be paid and harassment advertisers are going to face to do business there. I’m sure Putin’s rents will be quiet resonable......
Not to mention all the petty criminals who will flock there to nail all the visitors.
The town of Sochi is known to have a sewer sytem that explodes on a regular basis. The mountian lift system is something out of the 1950s. The budget has currently skyrocketed over 6 billion.
Another brilliant move by the ever corrupt IOC.