Massive clean-up efforts results in smog and pollution.The classic example of this may be given as that of many of the venues built for Athens games which proved very expensive but were later often seen as a metaphor for Greece’s deteriorating economy. Despite this, many of these buildings are rarely used at all. These projects often requires investment upto hundreds of millions of dollars, several acres of valuable real estate and further money to maintainance. Once the Olympics Games are over ,the city then must find the productive use of the dozons of venues it has built.Rather, Olympic tourists replace normal tourists, who want to stay away to avoid the congestion and greater expense during the Games. There is little evidence that tourism increases during the Games.This shows the loss that the host country faces. Further IOC takes half of the total revenue collected,which is roughly $5-6 billions. Countries like China which don’t have to give account of money spent to public, can afford to spend money quite easily. For democratic countries,spending this much money is not a easy task. Recent Olympics Games have costed more than $30 billions, such as in Beijing where estimated cost went to $40 billions. While organising the Olympics Games, cost of whole event goes upto $20-30 billions estimated.This results in comparatively low quality of infrastructure than is possible. Sports venues and stadiums must be built in time and this puts pressure on the planning, resulting in rush. The environment in which the preparations for the Games takes place is not quite healthy to rational, effective planning.In the bidding process for hosting 2016 Summer Olympics, Chicago spent nearly $100 million dollars, still was unable to bag the same. During the bidding process cities spend tens of millions of dollars to win the hosting competition. Not only the Olympic Games but the bidding process for the host city is also a Olympic event in itself.
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