The Ugly Truth Behind the Olympics.
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- The Paris Olympics are here, but is the city ready? Not a single Olympic Games has stayed under budget in the last 60 years. Not London, not Rio, not Athens - they all bled cash. Cities are starting to wake up to the fact that hosting the event may not be worth it. In this video, I travel to Paris to interview locals about the truth behind the economics, hidden costs, and long-term impact of the Olympics.
20,000 likes and I'll jump into the Seine!!
Co-produced by Ken Chwatek - @ChwatCity
Very special thanks to Samy!!!: www.instagram....
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Alright Tejas im starting the video you better not cost me my job by the end
Ok that was good I didn’t get fired, hope you had fun !
SAMY is a GOAT everyone. Let's all comment "thank you Samy" for being such an incredible host.
Thank you Samy!
Thank you sammy!!
Thank you samy
You know that meme about letting an average guy compete in the Olympics? We should do that just so everyone watching will know how bloody good the Olympians are. Would be legitimately fun and it might increase viewership too IMO.
wouldn't that be a bit demeaning to actual athletes? like you train your whole life for this moment and they let some random dinkus compete in your event? kinda rude imo
I should’ve phrased it better, what I meant was have them do the same event by the sides just for comparison. They shouldn’t compete for a chance at the medal.
@@GojoSatoru7699 yeah but they wouldn’t even have a chance at getting a medal 😂
I think it would just be better to have a time above the olympic- and world record that's just "average person"
So… are you going to be the one to compete against Olympians? If you are so ready to offer someone like that to the wolves I am sure you should be happy to take the lead.
I actually live in Paris, and the video is very accurate. You could mention as well that France has no government right now, the olympic games are coming at the worst time. In a huge political crisis.
No government?
didn't the left wing party just win big in an election?
@@This_amari The French public elected a LePen right-wing coalition government in a majority, but a left-wing coalition led by Emanuel Macron’s party engaged in a political coup d’état which appears to have been a marginal success. Many right-wing would-be parliament members either ceded or were presumably bribed to flip in order to keep Le Pen out of the ministry. The government had been in a stalemate as to who actually takes Macron’s place, and what proportion of the parliament (s)he will have.
@@realistic_delinquent OH NOOOO!! I thought Macron won! France is in Le troubles.
Looks like the gender fluid consorts have taken over the country
As a Londoner, the 2012 Olympics was the only thing anyone could think about for YEARS, even non fans. On the run up to it, there were massive festivals, massive general london infrastructure projects, the atmosphere and hype throughout the city was evident everywhere you go even 3-4 years prior.
Nothing has been able to top the 2012 opening ceremony since.
Nothing 18:57 ike that in Paris ! London is a pro at these grand events
Yes I was in London during those years. I honestly think it was a massive success. Everyone was buzzing! And the area they redeveloped has remained a success to this day, so I believe.
Same emotions as a Sydneysider. Actually, Sydney 2000 is one of the greatest moments in Australian history- even if I myself was merely a toddler back then. Obviously with some personal bias, I think vibe-wise it was the greatest Olympics in the modern era.
@@MW-dd8vkWait 2036 Olympics in India will beat yours opening ceremony
I rate this video 10 croissants out of 10 🇫🇷
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That's for us Italians, not French people 😂 @@TejasHullur
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As a person who lived in Greece for 22 years and also during the Olympic games I can tell you that it was an excuse to construct infrastructure that Athens desperately needed at the time. The Olympics was an excuse to build stuff that they needed like a new airport, more metro lines (there was an existing one that was a 100 years old), a bigger tram network and to add more facilities that were needed to support modern tourism and a modern society. It was also a chance to advertise the country and show the world that it could be successful despite having the Daily Mail trespassing in building works trying to prove it couldn't happen. People say they are still paying for it, of course they are because they are paying for stuff they needed anyway to support the local economy and the tourism that Greece has anyway. Other countries that hosted they Olympics may not have had this benefit as Paris, London etc did not need it.
I knew the cons of the Olympics outweighed the pros, but I didn't know the cons outweighed the pros by THIS much. If the Games are this detrimental to the host countries, maybe they should consider making the Olympic Games more about the sports again and less about the show/event itself. Would take some pressure off the athletes as well without diminishing their incredible performance. This was a very well made video! You earned a new sub. :)
Not to mention that many pilots and flight attendants don’t want to take flights to Paris during the Olympics. They can’t go anywhere, there’s so many people, the city’s not ready, lots of construction, it’s just sheer chaos. My mom is a pilot who flies to Paris quite often, but she has avoided Paris like the plague during the Olympics. With her seniority she’s able to avoid those trips, but one of her friends is fluent in French and doesn’t have much seniority, so she’ll HAVE to go during the Olympics and is dreading it
They can't go anyhwere??? What's that supposed to mean
@@pedro6720 the whole tourist area (Arc de Triumph to The Eiffel Tower I believe) with all the landmarks and tourist spots are closed during the Olympics to prevent terrorism. You have to get a permit either 30 or 60 days in advance (I don’t remember which it is) to go into that area and it involves a lot of paperwork, showing your ID everywhere, and it’s just a ton of hassle. You can’t do anything on a limb
We all have to do things we DREAD at our jobs from time to time!
Big deal she flies to Paris
@@andratoma9834 she’s still doing her job, she’s flies to more places than just Paris. She’s mostly been flying to Athens and Barcelona recently
Well, that’s a good problem to have. Your mom sounds pretty cool.
“Really excited because I think it’s gonna be a mess” 😂😂😂😂
Ecstatic? Paris Olympics: Messi top to bottom
I read this exactly when he said it. I like it when that happens 😊
Honestly he isn’t wrong. Same reason I was excited for the World Cup, Qatar is a restrict country, however during the World Cup everyone went nuts and the government freezes some laws for the occasion. Celebrations everywhere everyday even inside the metro which was my favourite since I use the metro to commute to and from work when I normal days you will be arrested.
My mess maybe different from others 🙂
The "AaaAaAAAAaaa American!" with the pointing sent me.🤣Samy was a great addition!
Bro the Kanye “****** in Paris” cut was hilarious 3:38
YUP AND WE ARE WINNING EVERYTHING😂
This is very good. As a person from Montreal. Host of 1976 Summer games. we also paid heavy taxes to pay off the debts. In 2024. We are still paying to repair the crumbling structures. Too much. Not worth it. Forget it. Lose lose from every angle. Thanks for educating the world about the truth.
I didn't come to UA-cam to watch a video about the Olympics, but man I watched the whole thing when I should have been working!
This video was INCREDIBLE. Great work on being informative and entertaining - genuinely we need more of this sort of content on UA-cam.
Keep it up!
.... get back to work.... but also thank you so so so much for the compliments. We really want to level up educational content on this platform!
Same, idk how this video popped up on my feed but I’m happy it did! Was only going to watch 10 minutes on my brief walk, but I ended up watching the whole thing (and walking further… had to reschedule a meeting 😂). Loved it! New subscriber to Tejas!
The Parisians are just too down-to-earth to be fooled
You misspelled cynical
@@realistic_delinquent I don’t see cynicism being the main philosophy in Paris, although it’s definitely rampant
@@metalblind95yeah I’d say down to earthiness is more prominent than cynicism
They're just not ignorant. America could learn a lot from France.
‘Only 30 percent of French people know English. Learn English people’ hahaha love this. You’re in France!
Exactly!!!! Americans 🤦🏻♀️
French is hard 😢 Words are not pronounced as they are spelled
do you learn Spanish before you travel to spain? @@Roxy_liquid_dream
@@beachlife127 neither in English 😅
@@meinctutw8261 it’s not the point and yes I learn to be able to communicate in the language of the country I visit! It’s more the entitlement of expecting people to speak their language! It’s a very American thing. I am not American so I have experience it, you can’t prove me wrong buddy! Cheers and put some love in your heart ❤️🍻🍻🍻
This explains a lot why 2 weeks ago flight tickets for Paris were cheaper than any other country in Europe. It didn't hit me the Olympics would have such a negative impact nobody would want to travel.
Semi-permanent host could be a good option. Another option I can think of is have a region or continent share the hosting then have rotation of hosts regions. This happened during the FIBA World Cup in 2023, wherein Japan, Philippines and Indonesia shared hosting rights and where the semi finals and finals where held in the Philippines. In this way, countries can share the cost of hosting while having better crowd control and security management. This could also help the country maximize its resources and availability of facilities.
And not make it so big and specially with the infrastructure.
If the ioc don't change their business model in the next 8-10 years they are legitimately done imo. The illusion of profit is gone and the prestige of hosting the olympics as well to the point where cities don't even have to compete to get the games since not enough cities are trying to even host them. Either they remove a lot of sports so that less infrastructure needs to be built, which wouldn't be appreciated by fans and athletes of those sports, or they split the competitions to multiple close host cities or maybe even host countries like the world cup for example does. Either way something needs to change asap
Thank you for doing voice translations instead of just subtitles when non-English is spoken. People who are visually impaired rely on audio and can not do small subtitles. Thank you!!! Don’t change this practice!
The combo of sit-down explainer and on the ground interviews is edited together well Tejas. I hope one day I can meet you or collab man, keep going :)
Appreciate it a ton!
Honestly you saying that Paris wasn’t ready to host checks out from all the mistakes and controversies from the opening ceremony (mis-naming S. Korea with N. Korea, the “Lord’s Supper” incident, etc.)
And also the games themselves with doping from China and also a controversial women's boxing event at the moment too, with a lot of issues on both sides of arguments.
@@f1champ551 My goodness, the issues are just piling up smh
@@HiddenTalent_07 then the winter Olympics as well have issues as well if there are any new venues lining up after the Italy one in 2 years as well... Yeah, there business strategy overall for both Winter and Summer Olympics needs a MAJOR overhaul.
@@f1champ551 HUGE 😭. They need a new management team for sure bc I’m worried future Olympics will just be next to impossible to bring into existence and soon the games will be nothing but a memory in history :,(
What’s the Lord’s Supper incident?
Let's all remember why the olympics started in the first place. It's a war game, designed to showcase warriors. THAT used to be the sell for the nations, people were afraid to invade you if you did good in the games.
One part that is overlooked is the amount of people who are hired for this giant gig. Just in broadcast alone about 500 professionals travel to Paris and they need places to stay and food to eat.
I think it has more to do with how the French are as they don't like this type of event, they don't like crowding and chaos.
Living in Toronto and seeing the French complain about construction made me laugh hysterically. We are constantly under construction and are not hosting anything, none of the constructions happening now have anything to do with the 2026 WC.
Also people who are not hired. The Games are relying on 20,000 unpaid volunteers to work for billionaires. Maybe they believe it will bring them prestige. It just makes them fools.
@@nedludd7622 if you're a student and need some experience on your resume, I see nothing wrong.
@@nedludd7622 Of course volunteers do not get paid, as not getting paid is implicit in the definition of the volunteer. Nobody forces anyone to donate their time. So, while you may think the 20,000 to whom you refer are fools that is simply your opinion. Those who volunteer obviously think otherwise and, since anyone volunteering doesn’t impact you, why is your negative opinion of volunteers relevant to anybody but yourself?
According to the US Census Bureau, only 22% of people speak a language other than English. So 30% of people knowing English is already way higher than Americans counting all second languages. The french knowing any foreign language goes up to 44%. So no, "Learn English" doesn't seem fair. Maybe everyone should try to learn another language.
Finally someone cracked the Math 😊
Nonsense. The Census provides statistics on what languages people speak AT HOME, that is, their langue maternelle. It doesn't even provide any information on languages people have learned, certainly not to the incredibly low standard of the Parisiens in the video.
@@nineteenfortyeight6762 look fight with the Census Bureau's of each country, not me. I'm just stating facts. It'd be ridiculous to expect me to know the particular situation of each person in their respective census. Though I can agree that the standard of the Parisians in the video was "incredibly low".
In Paris, nice, Marseilles, it's better to learn Arabic. 😊
Anglos just thinking other countries they go have the obligation to speak their anglo
So lovely to see you had a great experience with Parisians. It’s not often shown in English content so this kinda content is always refreshing to see (also I’m French so I’m biased lol)
Excellent video. As someone living in Brisbane I already feel down about 2032. In recent months the local government changed their minds and doesn't want to spend the money to host a great Olympics. Yet the current stadiums are in serious need of upgrading. I think there should be a legacy element to the games. Infrastructure invested needs to support the future. I hope we can turn things around.
Boston almost considered bidding for this year and, considering I had to wait over 40 minutes for the train yesterday even though the north half of that train is shut down, and seeing our traffic... thank GOD we didn't.
Agree
i am rooting on you as a creator. your creativity is literally dripping in this video. really really impressive, tejas!
Seriously thank you!
Absolutely top notch, but I see far greater potential.
I was in Paris last month and I was super surprised by the fact I that I haven't seen promised crouds of tourists, I haven't seen garbage on the streets and Parisians are actually super nice and such an interesting people to be around
I have no idea if it was due to the Olympics, but I loved it to be there (even with all the construction work)
I agree! I was there last month and loved my visit there. ❤
The mayor swam in the river? Anyone want to do the joke? Anyone? ANYONE? any takers? No? OK, I'll do it. "He's insane"😂
Sure , that i don't hate the Olympics , but the IOC simply cannot stay in outdated business model and should make a really impactful regulation update and they also have to adapt with changes as sports scene would be never a stagnant scene
Nobody is saying that the fact that Shakespeare slept in that bookstore is a "fake news". It opened in the 1990s, while he lived in the 1600s
In my life I never heard that story.
not in the bookstore but the building yes
London did get a fair bit of that money back after the land was sold off after the Olympics and the Olympic village was sold as flats. But yes it was a major loss leader. London had a legacy vision and it has predominantly come to fruition. Some of the venues were altered and reused, some were taken down and erected elsewhere in the UK. A crew were temporary, and others like the O2 and Excel were already built. I hope Paris has the same sort of legacy. At least a lot of the venues were built already like Stade de France etc.
Thank you ,Tejas, for a very informative and fact based, unbiased representation of the topic! At 63, I’m really done with the mainstream media I grew up with. They are blinded by greed, power and corruption, so sad. I believe a lot more fact-based info are from smart young, UA-camrs like yourself! Please keep up your great work and always walk in the light of integrity!😊🙏👏👏
14:24 “Because 1.5 Billion for clean this water, and when I see this water I DONT SEE THE GROUND, yk.” Parians are funny ass hell 😭🙏
the addition of Samy was so good…the translation and the humor🤩
Los Angeles actually made a small profit hosting the Olympics. They did this by using existing facilities, and putting up the athletes in college dorms. They actually used the stadium built in the 1930s-perfectly good. If managed correctly, the games can be staged at a reasonable cost. The problem is that local politicians all want to get rich-they get graft and kickback$$ buy having the national government pay to put up the white elephant buildings. Look at Rio de Janeiro and Athens-both built enormous venues that are now unused and rotting away. Hosting the Olympic games is basically a way to launder money
LA made in profit on the 1984 Games while funding 100% of the cost of the Games frim private sources; no government / taxpayer money was used to fund any part of the Games. The same is also the case for the 2028 LA Games being funded from private sources.
I know that LA using private sources and generating a profit contradicts this video’s narrative of all Olympic Games going wildoy over budget and generating losses, but some mention of LA’s experiences in hosting the Games would have added objectivity to the narrative in this video.
Good vid, it's a shame that so many cities just see no benefit from the Olympics, London is a slight exception, Stratford got a lot of development and loads of venues are being used still
A few of the venues were moved to other cities as well.
“ When you think the Olympics, what do you think of?”
I think of the coral reefs and eco system in Tahiti that had to be destroyed for the surfing, I think of the people that had to built yet another Olympic Stadion, village and so on and weren’t paid enough and all the recourses being used for said buildings when there are enough hotels and venues already. I had to think of all the people giving thousands to an industry that could help so much in other parts of the world. I think of how privileged we are to indulge in this kind of thing when others are frighting for their existence.
And I think of how I will never be able to understand why sports always get a free pass for so many things when it comes to environmental and societal rules..
i think if people cant figure out how to make the olympics financially and environmentally sustainable and good for the host cities we should just stop having them. my personal suggestion is choosing a different city for each event (or maybe grouping them together or something so all the swimmers and divers are in the same place. idk). and that way one city doesnt have to bear the brunt of hosting the olympics and construct the olympic village and spend billions on new facilities. it might feel a bit different but at least it wont bankrupt every city that hosts
My suggestion is they pick 4 PERMANENT cities for the WINTER games and the 4 for the SUMMER games that will rotate between cities and each host city should reside in hemisphere of the globe ... The benefits with this system is obviously the Olympic Village, Stadiums, infrastructure etc. will be be already established and not need to be built from the ground floor up every fours years!!! And for the North & Western quadrant I suggest LA!!!
Games in 1984 Los Angeles had a 80 million dollar surplus.
The money left went to Amateur Athletics Foundation that created youth sports programs.
Good to know!
Man Tejas your video quality is equivalent to channels with 10M+ subs. Im so glad i found this channel
I just realise with your comment that he have just 64k sub, I was thinking of 2 or 3m subs lmao
@@chama6775 exactly, the video quality is really good
Thought I'd run through the video fast, but stayed for every second of it! Great stuff, keep it up!
This was an amazing deep dive & travel documentary all in one. Happy the UA-cam algorithm brought me here. Looking forward to your next video!
Amazing video! Opened my eyes to something I didn’t even know was an issue. Great job!
Thank you!
So happy that this came up in my feed! UA-cam is finally pushing great content and new creators 👏
Fantastic video🎉
13:43 "His food doesn't taste as good as he thinks"
*Shattered me*
people like you are the reason I want to continue doing youtube, this is amazing 👏
ur vids are getting better and better
Means the absolute world. Not even 5% where I want to be
This is such a well-produced video. I can see that you clearly researched the topic well, and allowed locals to represent that data as well. You earned a subscriber :)
This is amazing !!! Great work Tejas thank you for showing us these in-depth insights, especially the interviews, they are so fun to watchcan't wait to see you jumping into the river Seine
Lot of misinformation:
1. Los Angeles and Atlanta both met their budgets when adjusted for inflation and turned profits.
2. Several times, cities will include infrastructure projects that would’ve happened w/o the games into the overall budget, skewing numbers.
3. It’s a question of priorities that the host and bid cities have. Makes it hard to judge the worthwhileness of a city hosting.
4. The games bring in tourists and investment both before, during, and after the games: Barcelona, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Turin, Vancouver, London and more have proved this point.
interesting insights
1. The LA games made $230 million in profit and Atlanta made $20 million in profit. This is equivalent to the projected profit margin of a mid budget movie. And the combined spend for those games were (inf. Adjusted) in excess of 4 billion dollars, considerably more than any investment expected to turn that kind of profit. LA profited precisely because it contradicted your second point, recycling and/or up scaling existing infrastructure, making it a universal exception to the data in the video, not an example of its inaccuracy. Atlanta came in way over budget, and forced the taxpayer to cover the more than $half-billion overcharge.
2. What you’re describing is, in part, a retrospective need fallacy. In order to justify a significant expenditure, and keep the cash flowing, the organization leverages its potential alternate uses to its jilted investors. Some of this significant infrastructure is either abandoned or demolished immediately after the games (see: Rio Olympic stadium, Beijing Olympic village, Athens almost all venues), and some operates at a fiscal loss for years following the games (see Vancouver Olympic train line, London natatorium, Montreal Olympic park).
3. True! The benefit of LA hosting the ‘84 games was manufacturing a generation of nationalistic Americans that would support the following 3 decade long middle-eastern invasion of conquest. Greece needed to default on its debt to get installed out of pity in the EU multi-national bailout program. China used their Olympics to threaten the western financial hegemony, then used the failure of the games to oust China’s most popular and most liberal CCP leader.
4. Curious that you listed 5 affluent cities with pre-established world-leading tourism economies out of 6 you cared to name. More curious that you left out the several cities that saw barely any tourism at all (Beijing, Lillehammer, Sochi, Rio, etc.).
@@realistic_delinquent im not here to debate anything except the fact that theres very little to no effect from the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles (a city in the state most hated by Americans and the city spoken about with disgust and contempt by most Americans and a good portion of Californians). I dont think anyone remembered or cared about any possible nationalistic tendencies they "suddenly" picked up because of the Olympic games (that most Americans dont even watch the opening ceremonies of) and have those nationalistic tendencies that "suddenly" appeared last for almost 20 years while thinking back to 1984 Los Angeles the city they likely would avoid ever going to if it wasnt for Disneyland being closer to some then Disneyworld, which is located in a state they semi-joke but are also semi-serious about wanting to see it sink in the ocean, especially when the only thing theyre likely to remember about LA in 2001 USA is not the Olympics that occurred 17 years prior but would be thinking of the LA Riots that occurred 9 years before 2001. That being said im not saying there arent nationalist in the USA, that invading Iraq was something I support, Im not saying anything about any position youre taking except tht LA 1984 Olympics werent even an afterthought nor had any affect on anyones mentality by te time the year 2000 came. That and only that is what Im saying; although I will add numerous polls taken of Angelinos ranging between between 57% to 76% do favor the Olympics coming to Los Angeles in 2028 especially since USC a private university and UCLA a public university as well as their sports facilities and the 9 professional sports teams and their sports facilities, the 16 other major universities/colleges and even a few city colleges with big sports facilities in Los Angeles county and its somewht understandable (along with the fact that Los Angeles is filled with those willing to be sponsors of events or advertise meaning a far easier accesses thats well established which helped makes the games in 1984, just like its making USC and UCLA relevant with NFTs and private funding that will help offset some costs as well. I mean USC alone a private university got people multiple times who never went to the school to invest hundreds of millions into their university, where they had a fundraiser called "Campaign for USC" where their goal was to raise $5 billion in 5 years, they raised that $5 billion in just 4 years and went above their goal raising $6 billion in 5 years plus another billion (totally $7 billion at the end of it all)/ So Los Angeles has enough going for it where if any city has the capability to make a profit from it, itll be Los Angeles. While also true that the IOC does not add into the cost of the event any money spent on infrastructure transportation (meaning every Olympic game budget amount is higher then they admit since cities wont include cost of new roads, trains etc, Los Angeles has been trying to add public transportation for awhile, and many of us in LA are happy to see at least something getting done instead of nothing or seeing projects on timelines where itll be 45 years for some transit projects to finally be completed (since they arent in areas people would use fr the Olympics LA has chosen to go at it at the normal half-century pace). so while cost of new transport projects in LA arent included in what the cost will be, its still projects that are needed, sadly there arent more places that need transit projects done before the olympics since the areas where transit projects for the Olympics are needed just as much as in a lot of areas (side note due to NIMBYs in Los Angeles the one good thing about public transit projects in the area is that they usually avoid the weathy areas where people are less likely to use it and usually focus on areas where people would use it, just not always in the best alignment or possible routes that can be chosen from, but still more flushed out it gets the better its getting and so just for that reason alone i support it. plus with USC, Stanford and UCLA being 3 schools which contribute more athletes to the olympics then most other universities in the USA to both USA and teams for other countries with Stanford at #! and USC at #2 itll be nice to see them play here and not have to travel
LA went wah over budget. The extraordinary level of profit it made stems from the fact that it was the first time that advertising money would come into play at the Olympics.
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1. Looking at the pure games profit is a poor way to look at the benefits of the investments. Atlanta’s Olympic Stadium more than paid for itself long after the games, ditto w the improvements made to MARTA. The bigger benefit however was the elevation in Atlanta’s profile. The city has boomed since the games were awarded and several of the city’s leaders cite the games as a catalyst factor. Remarkable too is how well distributed this economic boom has been for black Atlantans, especially relative to other booming Southern cities.
2. Again, the cities you mention shouldn’t be factored into an analysis of the games worth. In the case of Rio and Athens, the IOC was wildly irresponsible to give them the games. Rio’s original Olympic plan was developed by Barcelona’s team and would’ve seen investment spread across the city along corridors that needed it. Organizers and politicians binned these plans and instead directed investment to properties they had financial stakes in. Typical developing-world corruption. Athens abandoned the original plan too to use temporary and existing venues, going so far as to firing the President of the bid committee. The new plan was an act of hubris; they built permanent venues in an attempt to sway the IOC to permanently bring the games to Athens. Beijing, Sochi, etc. are all examples of the same hubris at play. Even Tokyo fell into this trap.
3. Yeah, not the point I was making. Your rant makes little sense and adds little value to this discussion.
4. See point 2. The overall point I’m making is that LA84, Barcelona ‘92, Atlanta ‘96, Sydney 2000, SLC 2002, Turin 2006, Vancouver 2010, London 2012, Pyeongchang 2018, Paris 2024, etc. Show that there are successful hosting models that do not create longterm issues for host cities. At the end of the day, it’s up to the host city/host nation and organizers on whether or not those models are followed. The IOC does not force cities to build permanent venues, it actively encourages them to use temporary and existing whenever possible. All of the counter cases you list were cases of cities actively rejecting models that had previously worked in favor of hubris, pride, and greed. To tar the entire Olympic Movement or the process of hosting the games with the actions of irresponsible hosts when there are *far more* examples of successful hosts is just nonsensical.
Very well made video! Was actually super impressed with the quality!
Suchhhh a good informative video. Love it!! Thanks for all the work you put into this!
Queenslander's DID NOT want the Olympics, but we now have to suffer with Brisbane 2032. The other country also dropped out. Our hospitals and schools are suffering and could desperately use the money (public health system). And half of our state's population will not see any benefit because we are 1600km (994 miles) away from Brisbane.
They are saying they will use existing stadiums, with minimal upgrades, but we will see. It was kind of funny that the Politician who wanted it appointed herself the head of 2032 games committee before she quit politics. Nice cushy job with none of the backlash when the games come.
I just love this video, so much effort and work that you can see when you watch it. The information work is just wonderful and so well covered in such a beautiful cover that it is really fun to watch and learn something. Please just keep going and keep putting in so much effort. I myself have come across you since this video and will watch a few more videos tomorrow morning.
The facilities from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City are all being used, they are not rotting away. There are plans to expand some of those same facilities for the 2034 Olympics.
The London olympics inspired alot of people who had never played sports to get into sports!
Even years after the event
It also blew up alot of olympians careers as youtube stars, of which I still watch regularly today.
The opening and closing ceremonies still amaze me even now, the planning, choreo, design, the image of the chimneys and the rings going up, all the mary poppins flying down to save the day, it was amazing.
The saddest part however was that the building was taken down instead of repurposed.. its now just blocks of flats 😢
Aww you guys are having so much fun! Great segment! Have a blast!! ❤❤❤
This was so well done!!! Thank you for shedding a light on the import numbers.
Might be interesting and really show that Olympians are the cream of the athletic crop. People today are like “they only got bronze. What good is bronze.” They got 3rd in the world! Seriously! Bronze is fantastic! But people don’t think that way anymore. Maybe a charity event where average people compete against olympians. Show the difference.
The 2024 Oympics sure didn't bring pride to France! It brought shame!
This is literally one of the most highest quality video I’ve ever seen and it only has a 100k views. THIS VIDEO IS AMAZING!
i'm really rooting for your success dude, wish the youtube algorithm choose you one day. :)
I think you should also show in your video what Paris does different than for example Athens. The beach volley arena, Versailles arena etc are all temporary stadiums. Some months after the games there will be empty locations again and no unused stadiums. The swimming arena hosted the Taylor Swift concerts in may 2024 and will be used again for ther events and as a rugby stadium. The athletics stadium Stade de France was built for the 1998 world cup in football/soccer, used for 2016 euro cup etc. The tennis stadiums existed already and are used every year for the french open etc. So I think they really learned from other citys to not have unused venues after the games. 👍
This is the exact video I was looking for with all the negative chatter going around about the Olympics. Amazing video as usual Tejas
Now that the Olympics are almost over, it's safe to say Paris is the shame of the Olympics.
So nice to see the French people communicating with you…I wanna come visit the Riviera. They can have different countries host different games…basketball can be played in America, hockey can be played in England ….
This was informational, entertaining, and the quality of the overall video is a delightful chefs kiss. Instant subscriber!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Utah is the exception to the rule. They actually did turn a profit, from what I understand. I think this was due to using available resources where possible (used University of Utah's football stadium for the opening ceremonies, etc) and maybe because Utah was not as toursity as a place like London or Paris, so it actually did bring in tourists. I would be interested in a further breakdown!
The Olympics in Calgary made money as well. They were reinvested into helping our athletes and left a beautiful legacy.
fire vid bro, actually blown away by the quality! (and thanks to you and ken for being willing to talk to me that one day in paris, it really meant a lot!)
Informative and entertaining video. Nice job!
I don’t think I’ve ever ever posted a comment like this but straight up that was such a great impactful video. Just got to the point, but also got a strong message across wow being impacted with facts and other others feelings. I love what you just summed up at the end because you actually gave ideas on how to make it better in the future. perfect A+.
After that horrible opening ceremony, I skipped the Olympics this year, there are some strange people over there in France
The Olympics should happen every 2 years. Each sport should hold seperate events prior as preparation so that the countries can make up the costs.
The winter Olympics in Sarajevo 1984. were very expensive for Yugoslavia, but the government did everything to look perfect and modern. After the Olympics, most of the things weren't unfortunately used. In 1992. everything was destroyed after serbs decided to attack Bosnia for going independent from Yugoslavia
"Dark side no one knows about" literally everybody knows and talk about it all the time. The public is the one who pressured cities to withdraw their bids due to budget concerns.
New subscriber! Loved this video. Also loved Samy! Tejas, stop perpetuating the “bad American tourist” narrative. 😂😂❤
I am glad someone is finally talking about the immense cost of making an Olympic facility. Everyone has already forgottebe scrapped. The rituals, the infairness, adn the drain on resources is nothing but damaging.n about the poor people who were thrown out of their metal huts to host the Rio de Janeiro games. I thin your permanent host solution is good. Paris and LA should already be set up in theory. Personally, I think the whole idea should
Oh, you should have come to the nort-east suburb, we have thoughts on the Olympics ! Over here, "preparing for the olympics" meant a ton of social cleansing, forcefully moving homeless people, destroying a shelter and pressuring people to move out of their homes to build the olympic village, destroying community gardens to build a stupid pool... We feel spat on by the whole thing, like we poor people are a stain to wash off before tourists arrive. When the reason they built the olympic village over here in the first place is because it's the cheapest real estate around Paris.
The river comments aged extremely well considering omg
My god, this video is incredibly well done. I am amazed that you were able to afford the production and quality with only 70k subscribers. Bravo
So, that explains some of the disasters going on! Problem is that the issues are occuring DURING the Olympics instead of afterwards, more so than any other Olympic locations.
Amazing video quality Tejas, hope to see your channel grow big!!!
This dude's video style is amazing
Hosting the Olympics in Sochi was a WILD idea. Knowing how unprepared the city was + how insane the corruption is....
Years ago I lived in a condo in Colorado that was built for athlete housing for Olympics that never happened. Denver won the Olympics bid and then decided against it for the 1976 Olympics. The complex was called Aspen Shadows, but everyone locally called it Aspen Guettos. It was not really guetto, this was a tourist town in an expensive area. They were really small and poorly built. You could not really fit a full size bed in the bed rooms. The roof blew off on one of the buildings when I lived there during a wind storm. The complex is still there and actually very expensive to own a condo there now because everywhere in that area is expensive. This was in Silverthorne Colorado, it would of been the Winter Olympics.
It seemed like complete opposite when the US hosted in Atlanta in '96...the area actually benefited from it but i think the funding for majority of it was different than how they do it currently. I can see how it could help but at the same time that formula isnt universal
As a person who actually lives in Paris, for sure businesses like hotels and restaurants haven't been profiting from the Olympic games unlike what was usually promised. But what the people in the video forget to talk about is also how bad it was for all the people that may not be in a comfortable financial situation in the first place.
First we have the workers that built all the facilities, a lot of them have been injured or even died in the process.
Then the homeless that were staying in the center of the city where all the office workers, tourists, etc are to get money were all relocated to farther areas outside of Paris so as to "clean" the city off its poverty and look better for the world to see.
In the same fashion, low income families, often with children, as well as students, where massively evicted from their homes to house more policemen for the Olympics. All of them either had to find a new and more expensive apartment in a hurry, or would end up in the streets. Also, students had been complaining for years about cockroach infestations, mold, electricity and water issues in their apartments and no one batted an eye, but when it's the policemen who complain about it, suddenly they made sure to clean everything out.
All of that and many other things happening on top of a VERY difficult time politically with the rise of far-right movements over the country making the people divide between far-right and left activists.
You can check that and other things out easily on the internet, just thought it would be interesting for people to know that on top of what was already said, which is also very accurate that's for sure !
It's funny, in Polish language sypfulis is called franca(french sickness). The word is coming from french noble females who brought this diesese to Poland.It's an old fasion swear word aswell 😂😂😂
i wouldve FINALLY went to Paris this year after leaving Germany but considering my nana has mobility issues it was out of the question with how difficult the olympics would make it for her to take her time as usual
2:54 this didn't age well
been waiting for this to drop ⚡
My guy :)
I thought this video was gonna talk about the same points of Search & Party's video, that I just watched, but the approach is totally different and you giving a different point of view by being in Paris and interview locals about the situation.
Really cool video essay man I really liked it
Shakespeare never traveled overseas. It is named this way (Shakespeare & CO) as an honor to his 400th Anniversary.
I’ve always loved the Olympics and the 2000 Sydney games were the first ones I really remember as a child. So when I got the chance to visit a few years ago and saw the Olympic Stadium and it was vacant and kind of run down (I won’t say it’s totally abandoned because I’m not sure if they still use it for events) it was honestly pretty sad.
Tejas, very nice presentation.
Cool video, I loved the vibe and storytelling