re: #44 lawhawk

The usual suspects always claim that this will be a net benefit for the host city/country, and that they’ll have infrastructure they can use/repurpose after.

Only a handful of games have ever broken even, and Los Angeles is one - mostly because they repurposed/reused prior facilities wherever possible. Some Games have left host cities deeply in debt and are still paying them off - like Montreal. I get the need for the sports competitions, but they just serve to cost the hosts money they’ll never get back in economic benefits.

I read an article a few years ago about how all the Rio 2016 infrastructure is ALREADY a complete fucking mess and this was less than FOUR years after those games.