This, Beijin and Sotchi are very good examples why the olympic comitee need to review what qualifies a city for the Olympic games.. New installations should be forbiden and they should encourage investement in already existixing venues. There should be rules that will require cities and goverment to redistribute the goods and have a strong post-olympic plan for the use of the installations.. For example, Guiness World Record requires all food record attempts to have a plan to not waste teh food otherwise the record cannot be accepted.

The lack of sustainability of the great events of our time is terrifying.

And Hungarian government wants Budapest 2024 while half of the country can barely afford to eat at the end of the month (this is only the tip of the iceberg) #nolimpia

This is really sad. Couldn't we provide access to the the local populations? So that they could both, maintain and profit from such investments? I hope someone will overcome these challenges. Brazil, we beleive in you!

The IOC should really consider semi-permanent fixtures for the summer olympics and for the winter olympics. Is there really a need to rebuild half of the ventures every single edition? There are plenty of abandoned former sport complexes around the world, often used only once. They should just decide on a location on every continent and have different host countries provide for the cost every cycle. It shouldn't be too difficult to reuse the complexes for yearly sport competitions either and for the regional sport events. Of course deciding where to build these complexes and the prestige that comes with it, is one the IOC will have to discuss.

It's not the first time we've seen such examples and it won't be the last. All Olympic hosts should take a leaf out of London's book. Olympic and Commonwealth Games venues continue to be used on a daily basis. Its all down to correct management and planning.

I'm not seeing anything new, this is typical of Brazil, it has everything to be one of the biggest countries in the world, both in environmental wealth and huge economy, but loses everything for the coruption and criminals, if it were better managed, it will be an excellent country To live, and to live well

Its like getitng a loan for a Ferrari and not being able to afford the maintenance.

Huuuuuh? I remember they promised to take it all away and build trees... Did I confuse something, or was it all just a pretty performance?

What a waste, they could have used the money for much needed projects so badly in Rio and Brazil. Shame on the people in charge. Next time think, maybe there should be a list of requirements that host counties have to meet before they can hold huge sporting events

It´s a shame for us !! Sad, but true.

ATL, LA ,& Russia, Australia utilized Olympics facilities their appropriately . Proving a city or country , or continent when a strong pre-Profitable infrastructure set for the Olympics can be a all around positive event! May be the IOC should make a considered host cities introduce a post games financial & utilazation of facilities plan . If a considered host city cannot provide this to IOC, with financial plans = no games. Proving the host cites with no stable financial infrastructure fail .3 Examples LA- Rams stadium, ATL Georgia Tech used Olympics Village for dorms. Russia uses the Olympics Village apartments as low income housing. In court revitalization projects or property inbankruptcy legal plans of action must be deemed financially stable . If it is,not, it is not. NO action or project is allowed to legally occur. Brazil Clearly the photos prove , it would not have been allowed to host the games. That is how the IOC needs to require this for host cities .

It looks like they need to do some tidying up

The worst place to have the olympics. The insane $$ thats spent, so many poor here. I left Canada when the olympics came here, don't agree with it

SHAME - and in ITALY is the SAME.....

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That is just really sad. What a waste of people's time, money and effort. What is wrong with the people of Rio? Do they just not know how to appreciate the good things in life? smh!

It is so very sad to see this...the country was broke to begin with to do this got the funding and now ...what waste i am sure there is something these venues could be used for...but if they cant afford the upkeep then..you are going to let it go then instead of leaving everything to go to ruins sell the seats they are numbered they are from the olympics like really make money instead of leaving it to rot...sickening..dont host something if you cant afford to look after it later...and where is the olympic committees heads for even doing this. And there are so many of these not just brazil...

Sad to see this. All I can say is go and see Beijing's Olympic venues today. They're still good and making money for the city. Put politics aside and see.

What a waste.

This is not surprising at all. The country could barely afford the costs of building these venues for the games. They cannot afford to spend money to maintain it just so the rest of the world feels better about it. This is what happens when countries who can't afford to support their own people take on the massive expense of the Olympic Games.

Why does any country want to host the Olympics? The answer, of course, is so that they can shift middle-class taxpayer money to the government's corporate overlords. The competition should be to punish a country by forcing it to host the Olympics, rather than treating it as a prize.

too bad.

That was so obvious before the start. Only dead-brained people believed those lies.

Welcome to our corrupt world of monetary gain for the few over lives of many. Discontent is the most experienced feeling in this world.

Fact is, it's wasted money. Just imagine how many hospitals and schools you could have build with this money?

lol from summer to winter.... no duh, have you seen my yard

Money wasted by bureaucrats, while millions starve. Sickening. Socialism is evil.

What a colossal waste of money.

The IOC requires new facilities because IOC officials are corrupt and want all these bright, shiny new facilities because they want lots of money spent. Safety is the least of their concerns.

Humans...

They wasted everything specially the unforgettable event

This is a disgrace!!! And it's not the first time the Olympic Games leaves great amounts of resource in the shape of constructions behind!

The Olympic games are a madness that needs to either stop or seriously downsize. I hope that, eventually, everybody will have learned the lesson and simply not host it anymore.

Humanty

That's incredible . I couldn't manage how trashed it looks

the water is sooooo gross looking... but if they were just going to let the place rot then why didn't they open it to the public?

Wtf

I never understood why those places aren't used anymore. They could still be used for doing sports!

still want olympic? it cost a fortune and after that?... landfill

And those bastard brazilians were protesting against these investments. Shame on them for not trusting the honest politicians!