• ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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    6 hours ago

    They’re hosted by cities not nations, but these games were profitable:

    • London 1908 & 1948
    • LA 1932 & 1984
    • Sarajevo 1984
    • Calgary 1988
    • Seoul 1988
    • Barcelona 1992
    • Atlanta 1996
    • Salt Lake City 2002
    • Beijing 2008 & 2022
    • Vancouver 2010
    • Sochi 2014
    • Pyeongchang 2018
    • Paris 2024
    • LeonineAlpha@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      Living in one of the recent cities listed

      Those games were NOT PROFITABLE. The IOC, etc, SAYS they were by:

      Completely discounting Policing/Security Not including any venue construction costs And a whole bunch more sleeze (not) accounting (multi Billion$, for a winter, seen 10x higher for some summer bills)

      Their idiotic “profitable” rhetoric is spuriously true, if you do some bullshit accounting, whereby the ticket revenues exceed the labour bill, on-site (and never mind they conned legions of “workers” into scabbing for “room+board volunteers” which was actually a cot and hotdogs in moldy leaking freight containers)

      Multi billion $ hole, that we the people pay debt servicing on eternally, and our city became a haven for international money laundering after, one of the most unaffordable places in the world now…

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      I was confused by your list until I remembered that they didn’t change the Winter Olympics to being a different year than the Summer until 1992.