Originally posted by tim60 In common, Melbourne 1956, Munich 1972, and Sydney 2000, all hosted the Olympics. Still paying the mortgage.
It really is time to have a few strategically placed Olympic parks around the world. Brazil may never recover from their Olympics. There are several places on the web where you can see the deterioration of the venues. Some only six months after the games.
About 10 years ago some resourceful people from the village of Avon, NY pitched a plan for the Olympics to be held in western New York State.. They had figured out that between the colleges and high schools facilities scattered between Buffalo and Rochester. NY they already had first class facilities to stage the games. Only only a few facilities needed like a bicycle racing track. Since it was summer, plenty of empty college dorm rooms to house the athletes and spectators too.
It was a pretty common sense approach with no extensive gifting of committee officials so they were not given a look. As an exercise on how to think outside the box and do it at a relatively low cost it proved that you could host the games without bankrupting your country in the process.