Has any city actually benefitted from the olympics?

[IAmNotAlpharius]

It seems like every city that ran the olympics got screwed over. Is there any city that has actually benefited from it?

 

[737 MAX Stan Account]

Salt Lake City benefitted a decent amount from the 2002 winter Olympics. The downtown area got an improved transit system in Trax, the U of Utah got some new dorms in the form the old Olympic village and Park City got put on the map as Utah's answer to Telluride. That, and the city actually made money off of it. The Olympics meant alot for the state as a whole. To the point that the logo for the games kind of became an unofficial state seal.

 

[User names must be unique]

London got a shitty housing estate, an outdoor concert venue and a couple of faster trains.

East Village, London - Wikipedia

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Legacy of the 2012 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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[Törni]

I'd say Helsinki definitely benefited from hosting the summer Olympics way back.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

The Olympics seems like a locust that causes local governments to white wash everything to appeal to awfully sensitive outsiders that'll more than likely never come back.

 

[Gone Ham]

Montreal tbh.

 

[Non-Threatening Niall]

Arguably Mexico City got an extensive metro network out of them, along with some enduring imagery.

 

[Exuvia]

Sarajevo. During the siege of the city 8 years after it hosted the Winter Olympics, the luge track became a field artillery position, the indoor skating arena was used as a supply depot and staging area before it was destroyed by artillery, and the alpine skiing venue built on nearby mount Bjelašnica became a fortified Serb position.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Boston because we said fuck off.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Just the smile on Hitler's face as well as whatever he is doing here is enough for Berlin to benefit from the 1936 olympics.

 

[Tism the Return]

Whatever the Brazilian monkey city that hosted them not that long ago. They walled off the poor(er)fags, or at least pretended they did by covering shit up with walls. Seems like an upgrade.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

It seems like every city that ran the olympics got screwed over. Is there any city that has actually benefited from it?

No. The taxpayers get screwed. The only people who benefit are the consortiums who win the contracts for construction, and the politicians who accept their bribes.

 

[The Real Me]

I believe that Bejing actually made an effort to decrease their air pollution in preparation for the games.

 

[Fetish Roulette]

Tokyo's hosting of the Olympics in 1964 represented Japan's arrival on the world stage, Barcelona became a tourist destination in 1992 thanks to increased international exposure, and LA actually turned a profit off the Olympics in 1984.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Just the smile on Hitler's face as well as whatever he is doing here is enough for Berlin to benefit from the 1936 olympics.
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This man, forget his name, seems so happy. It might be noted that he treated Jesse Owen with more respect than his US counterpart did.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

I doubt the '88 Winter Olympics in Calgary made the city substantially worse.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Salt Lake City benefitted a decent amount from the 2002 winter Olympics. The downtown area got an improved transit system in Trax, the U of Utah got some new dorms in the form the old Olympic village and Park City got put on the map as Utah's answer to Telluride. That, and the city actually made money off of it. The Olympics meant alot for the state as a whole. To the point that the logo for the games kind of became an unofficial state seal.
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Salt Lake 2002 was also a big deal because it was the first event like that after 9/11, right? Proving that things could still continue on like normal to some degree.

 

[Absolutego]

tbh if it weren't for the fact that Greece is kind of a disaster I'd say just keep the summer Olympics in Athens. Half of the reason every city loses money on these games is the fact that all of their local athletic centers need to either be massively renovated or rebuilt every time they host. Keeping it in Greece would both provide them a recurring revenue stream and avoid having to build stadium after stadium that never get used again.

 

[Retired Junta Member]

Some cities may have gained some infrastructures but I tend to be wary of this kind of events: Olympics, Expos, whatever. There is a huge money influx but it’s not the average citizen who’s going to benefit from it.

 

[No. 7 cat]

The World Cup resulted in small provincial towns or places with lower ranking football teams (like Brasilia) getting these absurd stadia far beyond their needs and means.