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Re:Post-Olympic Abandonment by pmarreck on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @09:16AM (#13705611)
You could do that or you could just keep it at the same facility for, say, 20 years and THEN move it. So a country could get a 20-year economic boost (hopefully, at least long-term) and at least re-use the facilities a few times
Re:Post-Olympic Abandonment by sandworm101 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:50AM (#13706890)
I think any boom would be short lived. The travel novelty would grow thin. The repeated use of the same facilities would also impact the sports.

More fundimental is the question of any boom. London didnt see much, with some shops downtown instead seeing marked reductions. Vancouver barely broke even. China didnt do it for the money. And the less said about Sochi's costs the better.

Re:Post-Olympic Abandonment by intoverflow2 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @12:26PM (#13707206)
> London didnt see much

Part of it is on the verge of being converted into a cement factory (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/11/olympic-park...)

Honestly believe a world without the Olympic games is a better world, if London can't find much use for them and Rio is already letting them fall into disrepair. What on earth is the point in this.

Re:Post-Olympic Abandonment by ern on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:01PM (#13709112)
Reading your link, it seems that the cement factory land was always zoned industrial, and was intended to be used for industrial purposes after the Olympics.
Re:Post-Olympic Abandonment by somewhatoff on Thursday February 23, 2017 @02:32PM (#13716939)
The Olympic park in London is bringing lots of new facilities - an innovation park, a university campus, a theatre etc and thousands of new homes.

London is an exception to olympic abandonment to my mind - it's doing a lot of the success of east London on what was previously polluted industrial land.

Re:Post-Olympic Abandonment by jonknee on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:39PM (#13707914)
> The repeated use of the same facilities would also impact the sports.

Doesn't seem to matter to the Cubs or Red Sox who both play in parks over 100 years old and are two of the most popular baseball teams. When you don't have to build them new every Olympics the facilities themselves could be much higher quality and actually be maintained.

Re:Post-Olympic Abandonment by sandworm101 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @03:08PM (#13708732)
Not age. Many events want slightly different venues each year. Marathons, sliding sports, even sailing. Adapting to the new venue is part of the sport.
Re:Post-Olympic Abandonment by mulmen on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @03:57PM (#13709084)
Marathons and sailing don't require purpose-built facilities so it's easy to maintain the variety there, just draw the route somewhere else. Sliding sports might present more of a challenge but a few corners can be changed to add variety without having to build an entirely new facility.
Re:Post-Olympic Abandonment by ctdonath on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @05:13PM (#13709711)
Without changing venues, other facilities will immediately attempt to duplicate the official Olympic venue in minute detail.
Re:Post-Olympic Abandonment by Retric on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @12:58PM (#13707510)
> The repeated use of the same facilities would also impact the sports.

If you where going to host 5 games then you could build a lot larger and more enduring facilities which would still be fairly new 20 years out. Importantly, you could also make some improvements after the first game when something did not work well. Worst case, I doubt maintaining unused buildings for 4 years then doing some renovation costs nearly as much as building them from scratch.

So, I don't see how using the same buildings 5 times would be a major issue. Further, a 20 year stretch in a single city would bring a stronger connection to the games as visiting the future site of the games is far more interesting than seeing where there was once greatness.