Grotesque waste by world sporting events
Nov 20, 2023 13:03:23 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Nov 20, 2023 13:03:23 GMT
Paris has built only two new venues for the 2024 olympic games -- a swimming stadium across from the Stade de France and an 8000 seat sports arena at Porte de la Chapelle. I don't know how much the swimming stadium will be used after the games, except by the local schools and a few national or European swimming events, but there seem to be some concrete plans. As for the new Arena, pop culture ensures that it will be a major concert venue in the coming years with more and more concerts needing appropriately sized places. Other new places like the athletes' village and the press centre were designed in advance to become social housing and small business areas. Everything else -- about 90% of the Olympic equipment -- is recycled from other events, from the Stade de France to the gardens of Versailles, not forgetting the Grand Palais from the 1900 World's Fair and the Olympic stadium from 1924. So maybe we won't lose too much money.
However, this video covers Qatar a year after the World Cup and also a lot of other places. Yes, we all knew this would happen, but we still let them get away with this shit. My personal suggestion (to be implemented immediately when I become dictator of the world) is that future bids for world events must include spending simultaneously an equal amount of money on new infrastructure in developing countries that can't afford it (because theoretically places like Qatar are also developing countries but without the money problems). Shame on places like Brazil, too!
However, this video covers Qatar a year after the World Cup and also a lot of other places. Yes, we all knew this would happen, but we still let them get away with this shit. My personal suggestion (to be implemented immediately when I become dictator of the world) is that future bids for world events must include spending simultaneously an equal amount of money on new infrastructure in developing countries that can't afford it (because theoretically places like Qatar are also developing countries but without the money problems). Shame on places like Brazil, too!
