• bossito@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Big sports events are a mad circus, all cost, no benefit is the rule. It’s extremely rare that a country/city benefits from a sports events, if ever. Sometimes people point out renovations done to cities that were useful, but those renovations could have been done without the excuse of the games. Building sports infrastructure with a single event in mind is prone to disaster, and don’t mention all the corruption behind. It should be FIFA or the Olympics making the bids, not the cities/countries…

    Big sports events are a huge pain for residents and taxpayers. And actually it didn’t have to be that way, with sensible demands many cities in the world could easily host them without extra works and expenses… they’re a finantial disaster by design.

    Hope others will learn from Victoria and take their bids back. I’m looking at you, Portugal (WC 2030).