Many Olympic facilities, which at the height of their popularity (at the time of the Olympic Games) were an architectural masterpiece, today show a shabby image, which is a far cry from the one of years ago, when people crowded there. After the spotlights receded, they became home to stray dogs and cats and weeds. Many former Olympic venues have been cruelly dealt with by fate, and today you will look for the former glory there in vain. Find out below which are these neglected and abandoned Olympic facilities, which are far from the image of their best years.
Organization of the Olympic Games it is a great honor for the country, but at the same time extreme expensive sport. Many Olympic facilities built specifically for the biggest sporting event in the world, for which the host countries scraped money in all corners and places, after the Olympic Games packed their bags and when the last journalists and sponsors had left, they remained "unemployed", since most of the countries pledged the matter without the necessary vision, and money for maintenance quickly ran out.
Remember the famous Bird's nest from the 2008 Beijing Olympics? It is not deserted today, so we are alone most of the time. There are occasional concerts, cultural events and an ice rink in winter. It certainly is far from its former glory. But many facilities, as you will learn below, have a much worse record. Indeed, many have become ruins, which are only sniffed by stray animals and where nature has taken over the reins. Although all organizers swear differently and look for content after the games to fill the facilities, many become ghost towns and in this way, with a delay, they expose everything the glitz and gloom of the Olympics. Where once competitions were held and dreams came true, today the scenes are like those from nightmares.
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The Olympics are for the host country enormous financial stake, no matter how rich it is. And if investors are somehow found for the construction, those who would take over the maintenance costs after the games and fill the venues with content should be searched in broad daylight, especially for facilities that have grown for less commercial sports. Therefore, many such hugs, illuminated by thousands of floodlights during the games, after they are turned off, they begin to decay. The 2004 Greek Games in Athens were a true Greek tragedy for the Greek economy. Beijing did no better in 2008, and London already had some vision in 2012 and was already thinking about the future fate of its facilities before the Olympic Games, so it built a number of assembly facilities, which were easily removed and did not suffer the cruel fate of the Olympic facilities presented below, which were chewed up, spat out and are today forgotten by everyone and left to the mercy of nature. What awaits facilities at PIO Rio 2016, only time will tell.
Abandoned Olympic facilities around the world:
