Not all sports facilities are in demand.
Less than a week before the Olympic games in Rio and the organizers hastily put the finishing touches.
The Olympic village was named uninhabitable, although athletes still have to check in there, and the berth to compete in sailing was destroyed the three-meter waves. In addition, the cost of the Games is growing rapidly.
With each new Olympics, more and more cities around the world ask the question: is the game worth the candle?
Jump not far from Sarajevo, which were competing in the winter Olympic games — 1984.
Most cities simply do not have the infrastructure necessary for a two-week placement on its territory of thousands of athletes, coaches, spectators and media representatives. The amount required for the construction of Olympic facilities advanced projects, rising, and research suggests that investing billions of dollars in the two-week event is not the best investment.
The pool where the swimming competition during the summer Olympics 1936 in Berlin.
The worst of cities-organizers of the script — if after the Games the Olympic venues will be the fifth wheel in the cart, which also spent an insane amount of money. This has happened more than once with different cities of the world. Of course, the reasons for such developments in each case. The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo, for example, was severely affected by the civil war which caused the destruction of many of the Olympic objects after the winter Olympics of 1984.
The Berlin Olympic village in our days, perhaps, is distressing.
Will Rio on a similar path in the future?
Time does not spare anything, including a mural of the times of socialism.
The Fulton County stadium in Atlanta (Georgia, USA) accepted competitions of the summer Olympic games in 1996. In 1997 it was decided to demolish it.
The Olympic cauldron was moved from the Olympic stadium in Atlanta when it was reconstructed in the home baseball stadium of the club “Atlanta, Braves”. Now she proudly stands over the highway.
Chinese tourists look through the fence at the national stadium, also known as the “bird’s nest”, where was held the ceremony of opening and closing of the summer Olympic games 2008.
Sign in an abandoned field in the centre of Beijing, where once housed a baseball stadium.
The competition venue for beach volleyball during the summer 2008 Olympic games, it seems, is not in the best condition.
Lonely dog in an abandoned field, where once was a baseball stadium.
Homemade brooms are lying there, where during the summer 2008 Olympic games was the green zone.
Parking near the track is now used as a platform for test-driving.
Abandoned concrete pedestal, where in 1984 he awarded the winners of the summer Olympic games 1984 in Sarajevo.
Abandoned railway station near the Olympic stadium in Munich, built for the summer Olympic games in 1972.
Abandoned swimming pool built for the summer Olympic games — 1952 in Helsinki.
Abandoned Olympic hotel, Moscow.
