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Cost of running the Olympics (journals.sagepub.com)
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X221098741#:~:text=The%20average%20return%2Don%2Dinves

Los Angeles was able to have a surplus as most of the infrastructure was already built before the Games.

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[โ€“] psvrh@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sochi might have done okay if was actually an Olympiad, instead of a scam to enrich Putin and his cronies disguised as an Olympiad.

It also served as PR for the invasion of Crimea.