The fate of most Olympic facilities is cruel. This was also confirmed by the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where the facilities are crumbling miserably after the withdrawal of athletes, spectators and cameras. The saddest image is shown by the famous Maracana stadium, where the finals of the World Cup were held in 2014, and the opening and closing ceremonies of the Summer Olympics took place here last summer. Meanwhile, the Olympic venues in PyeongChang, which will host the 2018 Winter Olympics, are getting their beautiful look.
It's been half a year since of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, and the once-shiny buildings there show today poor image. The project cost the Brazilians 15 billion euros. The state of the facilities is truly alarming, which is actually the case the disease of all Olympic facilities. We wrote about this in the article Olympics: Abandoned Olympic facilities around the world.
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Maracana, which was renovated two years before the soccer world championship games for 470 million euros, were desecrated by vandals, the only visitors to the stadium are stray cats (the desperate state of the stadium is primarily due to the dispute between the organizers of the Olympic Games and the company that manages it), the Olympic swimming pools have become waterlogged, olympic village and it became a ghost town. An investment worth almost one billion euros is looking for buyers and is practically empty, as they have only sold 260 out of 3604 apartments.
But in order not to be only negative, let's take a look at how the year is before it starts of the 2018 Winter Olympics look south korean Pyongyang, where they have already started counting down to the 2018 Olympic Games, which will take place between February 9 and 25, 2018. These will be the first Winter Olympics in Asia, which will be outside of Japan.
Gallery - Olympic facilities half a year after the end of the Rio 2016 Olympics:
Gallery - PyeongChang 2017 Winter Olympics:
