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For Olympic Stadiums, a Sad Life When the Cheering Stops

A pictorial essay about the long-run fate of these government public-works projects.

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • Anonymous

    Fun Fact:
    It also costs a huge chunk of change to tear these hulks down. Keynes would be proud.

  • Franklin

    I didn’t trace the origins of the article, being lazy this evening, but it was published in the NYT. Dollars to donuts, the majoritarian NYT editorial view of Olympics and public funding is not antipathy. Quite the contrary. What is necessary are better public-private partnerships, and additional committees to plan and migrate the facilities into worthwhile, self-sustaining public venues. What exactly is self-sustaining? Well, that means entrusted to a tax-break bequeathed corporation, with a BoD richer than The Dream Team, and a promise to represent the superior characteristics of the human race — goodwill doled out by the Treasury, according to the most egalitarian wisdom, at the right time.
    So it’s nice to see the reality of the Olympics Warholian nonsense published in a worldwide publication, but don’t expect the Dowds or Friedmans to put two and two together. It’s similar to salon.com reporting on the Schwartz tragedy and cyber hackers. Salon gets no more points than the NYT, both clueless in comprehending the fundamental and systemic cause in either tragedy.