over $90,000,000
china
7 billion
over 7 million
1000 billion
about 1 billion dollars has been spent in the olympic games
The idea is that the games pay for the new building work and the massive influx of tourists will lead to more money being brought in to the city and spent there. not to mention the ongoing use of the Olympic facility's.
This figure has not been tracked.
The London 2012 Stadium cost £500m to construct and hosted athletics as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. Seats 80,000 during Games but capacity reduced afterwards. Roof made of PVC not steel or concrete to keep environmental impact and costs down.
the greek government borrowed 15 billion pounds to try and make athens modern. Athens also spent 1.5 billion pounds on security apparatus. Athens was left withy an Olym;pic stadium which in the past 8 years has cost 500 million pounds!
because they spent all of their money building the world cup stadiums
Taking up the space and wasting money - should be spent for people's needs.
in history, it was the pope, trying to raise money for the building of a church. However, quite a lot of the money was spent on himself