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Monday 16 January 2023

Abandoned Olympics Venues

 

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In February 2022, during the Beijing Winter Olympics, James Grebey and Gabbi Shaw published an Insider piece on the fate of Olympics venues illustrated with 34 photos such as the one above. Worth a look.

34 photos that show how some Olympic venues are left abandoned after the Games end

  • The 2022 Winter Olympics are underway in Beijing.
  • Sometimes cities successfully repurpose parts of their Olympic set-ups, like in Montreal.
  • But oftentimes these giant investments are torn down or abandoned, as these photos show.

5 comments:

dearieme said...

Looks like the House of Commons with an adjournment debate.

Sam Vega said...

I'm surprised that London came out so well. I thought it would be derelict as well.

A K Haart said...

dearieme - it does, or another debate on vaccination issues.

Sam - I expected at least some dereliction too - quite encouraging as well as surprising.

Bucko said...

Off the top of my head, there's one in Serbia and a lot of it is full of bullet holes due to the balkan war. I watched a program about it some time ago

A K Haart said...

Bucko - maybe with the bullet holes it was left as a reminder.