This is the best summary I could come up with:
No
Is any city ready for the Olympics? Doesn’t this happen every four years?
Is any city ready for the aftermath of the Olympics? What are the plans for this stadium after the fact
I mean Paris is a massive city with major sports teams and regular events outside the Olympics.
And yet cities end up losing money when hosting the Olympics most of the time.
In general, the revenue brought in from the games does not equate to the money put out by the host city. London generated $5.2 billion in revenue against its $14.6 billion spent, said Investopedia. In 2010, Vancouver spent $7.6 billion on the Olympics but brought in only $2.8 billion. In 2008, Beijing’s $42 billion investment generated revenue of just $3.6 billion. In fact, every Olympics since 1960 has been over budget, and an analysis from the University of Oxford found the games overrun their costs by an average of 172%. Los Angeles in 1984 remains the “only host city that realized a profit from the games,” Investopedia said, but this is largely “because the infrastructure required of them already existed.”
https://theweek.com/sports/olympics-cost-hosting
They get conned into bidding for it every two years anyway though.
And how many of the facilities built for the Olympics in the past 3 decades are still viable structures today?
Most of the new facilities are constructed with wood and recycled aluminum, and the plans at the end are to dismantle them and reuse the components in other building projects. Its actually kind of a neat idea, but we’ll see how it actually gets implemented.
I wanted to visit Paris my whole life. Pere Lachaise cemetery, the Eiffel tower, the museums, the food.
When I got there the cemetery was filled with lying grifters trying to sell bullshit stories about the people interred there. The tower was full of pick pockets and scumbags ripping off tourists for thread bracelets. The museums were filled with influencers blocking access to a lot of the displays with their stupid duck lips and tag-along ‘photographers’ with their iphones .
The only thing that lived up to the dream was the food. Oh my the food…
Oh… And the experience of seeing a woman shitting in the seine in broad daylight. That was kind of exciting too…
I’ve been to Paris several times now and I found it way better after I did all the touristy stuff. Just walking around old neighborhoods and doing less iconic activities. I kind of had to run out of “must do” tourist checklist things before I really appreciated Paris.
Similar experience. The food was amazing, the louvre and notre damme were crowded, musee dorsay was great, streets were gross and grifters everywhere.
Then I went to Kyoto. It was everything Paris is supposed to be. Absolutely amazing place. Incredible French food actually, wasn’t expecting that.
I don’t know why the last sentence is hidden under a trending articles list, but it’s rather telling:
“It’s gonna be a beautiful opening ceremony,” Gloppe says. “If there is no terrorist attack.”
And living in Paris, I cannot help but fear there can be attempts at attacks. I work near near the city center and since Monday I have seen a lot more police officers patrolling, they seem to be on high alert.
And not to forget the recent election that will soon go into the second phase
