7Beijing’s Olympic Facilities, China
The 2008 Olympic Games cost China the equivalent of approximately $47.6 billion in today’s market. A little over 10 years later the facilities are in disrepair. The water sports arenas are dried up and the mascots are now ignored.
The wood of the volleyball stadium is rotting too. The two main Olympic venues, the Water Cube aquatics center, and the Bird’s Nest stadium still attract tourists and the government hopes to use them again in 2022 for the Paralympic Games in 2022. Still, the derelict facilities upset many locals as nearly 2 million residents were forcibly relocated to make way for the games.
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