Post War America wrote:Kannap wrote:
Usually, they don't. The Olympics is just a hole to sink massive amounts of money in and cities take years to recover and pull themselves out of debt afterwards. Thousands of people get displaced from homes for stadiums that will never be used again (see: Sochi, Russia, and Rio, Brazil as most recent examples)
I've been to the Montreal Facilities too and they seem like they mostly sit there, rotting.
Most facilities do. Nothing's as big as the Olympics, and nobody wants to use a stadium that can fit 80,000 fans for an event that's only going to pull in 5,000 or 10,000 fans. Empty seats don't look good.