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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 17 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Can we just have the IOC ban the USA? It's not like the Olympics have ever been profitable for the host nation.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

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 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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...

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 points 2 hours ago

Its the OCOGS that report profits not the IOC.

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