5 Abandoned Olympic Stadiums
The Summer Olympics are coming to Los Angeles in 2028, and both L.A. and California have every reason to be nervous.
Before the host committee melts its keyboard buttons firing off an angry missive in defense of this plan, we'll just say that it looks great on paper. Plans to build an Olympic Village and media village were scrapped in favor of using UCLA and USC dorms. After a recent spate of sports facility construction, the city already has all the venues its needs for games.
Also, it's already hosted the Olympics before -- in 1932 and 1984 -- and retains some idea of how to do so successfully. Finally, $1.2 billion of the $5.3 billion that the city plans to spend on the event will be poured into infrastructure improvements that would ostensibly benefit the entire city -- while the rest is dedicated toward operations. However, there is a reason why Boston ran screaming from the same 2024 Summer Olympics bid that Los Angeles originally wished for and that Paris won: That price almost never holds.
Most often, however, the signs of Olympic excess aren't on the books, but within the crumbling ruins of the venues left behind. While Rio's seemed to be falling apart during the games themselves, the globe is dotted with Olympic leftovers that now seemingly exist solely to decay. We took a look back through recent Olympics and found five relics that are indicative of the often-fruitless spending that goes into this biennial debt buffet.
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