The Rio Olympics were only a year ago, but the venues look like they've been deserted for decades
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2017
- Officials in Rio de Janeiro hoped hosting the 2016 Olympics would help make it a first-class city. Instead, many buildings and stadiums made for the games have gone unused since the event ended.
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This is why the Olympics should only be hosted in countries with stable governments
Haydini Very True
Pretty much. Fortunately the next one is in Tokyo so that should be a treat for everyone.
lol people have been fear mongered of 'nuclear attack' since the 1960's, learn some history and awareness and grow a brain
no shit lol
1greenMitsi Why are people scared of nuclear war wtf. If you are gonna die you are gonna die. Jesus fuvk
Not to forget they evicted countless people from their poor neighbourhoods to build Olympics facilities there that are now in disrepair.
People are garbage, but this misuse of resources during state-wide crisis time must not be tolerated.
@@miiranga tru dat
Thats not a bad thing.
The place does look better now.
@@seanwhalen5738 you idiot people went on the streets just for those rich people to become even richer
Rio is garbage.
The fact that they built 31 apartment buildings that are now abandoned while at the same time evicting a whole bunch of people really makes me angry
Could've at least let those people live in these places after games finished
@@ivanmaras6566 They saled to civils
Now there are families living there normally..
Let poor people live there
@@hellolastname9556 yeah, poor people get to live free and other people paying 40 years to get a home
thge brazilian govermment sucks man, i am brazilian and i can say that
Thats crazy, the Sydney Olympic is now known as Sydney Olympic Park and it holds so many things from just the causal sports on weekends, events, school events/expos and housing. Still being used to this day.
We've just had Ninja Warrior held there. I live in Adelaide, but on my trips to Sydney it's been great to see parts of the city where the Olympics were held. It makes me sad, but not surprised, that such a thing has happened in Brazil.
Same with London Olympic park
You know what's the problem? that the government of rio de janeiro did not want to know about the works after the games ended, only after they decided to renovate the olympic park for games and rock in rio events..
I believe salt lake city Olympic village buildings are now dorms for college students
The difference is that in Brazil, nothing is built to work properly.
It’s like throwing a huge party and no one cleans up😑
Firefox9001 lol
It would be messirer
It’s a third world shithole
You just described Brazil's self-created persona to the rest of the world. "Carnival all the time, easy living, naked women, lots of booze, and no consequences!". Well, actually, yes, there's MANY consequences. No city with huge permanent shantytowns has any business hyping itself as a hedonistic entertainment destination for rich white people.
Brazil in a nutshell
They evicted people for this?😑
Sarcastic Squash ikr
Sarcastic Squash Brazil's fault for not making use of the buildings.
Sarcastic Squash Yes,honeless people. hood job ioc. and good job putting the winter Olympics next to the Kim jong un. thats brilliant
Uncle Chuckles r u special
They meant "Yes, homeless people. Good Job International Olympic Committee, and good job putting the Winter Olympics (2018, PyeongChang South Korea) next to Kim Jong un(North Korean Supreme Leader)
Olympics on a corrupted country is never a good idea.
what country is not corrupted please? and in reality people only see one side of the coins in the olympics and on the other side the video show it. it is reality bruh
@@balonder0 I'm a Brazilian, but I hate being one; I want to renounce my citizenship to another else.
You're right. Every country is a little corrupted but man brazil is ridiculous. I'm brazilian and I spent a third of my life there so i know exactly how things go down there "bruh"
@@Your_Beautiful_Sister_Is_Mine O brazil e foda cara. Lindo país mas sou grato por ter saido de la a quase 20 anos atras. Acho que nao estaria vivo se estivesse ficado. Sai fora tambem cara.
@@ThatGuy-eq9mz O país é muito corrupto para continuar existindo.
that is why Japan now try to organize it in a very moderate way. so, don’t judge Japan for using cardboard beds…
Didn't they say it was so the athletes couldn't have sex?
@@ivoryrick7734 Really? Haha why would they try to stop that? Let them have fun, they are in the prime of their lives...
@@1997Banane Genuinely don't know. I believe there was a scandal a while ago, or back in Rio, but don't quote me on that.
Japan is a clean country
@@ivoryrick7734 no thats purely rumours and people poking fun, it was just so they are recyclable. the Japanese love recycling where possible
I live in Brazil and unfortunately this is all true, the magic of the games are gone and now we have a giant waste of money during the biggest crises of our history... 😔
Giovani Cygnus So sorry, prayers for you all.
Jeff Garinger Thanks so much! 😉
Giovani Cygnus I hope Brazil will get better in the coming years! Prayers from Canada!
Giovani Cygnus I hope things get better. Brazil is a marvelous nation filled with lovely, decent people.
*brazil didnt even pay for it*
Brazil being Brazil.
No money on education and health care, lots of money to politicians and other thieves.
Só sad to be Brazilian nowadays
learn from Indian bro 😊👍
Telle Corlin Marak Why India? People in India use the streets as a toilet.
+Duct Synch ,why Favela considered as the centre of Mafia n centre of slums on earth?
Telle Corlin Marak lol india
Tony Stark "Open Bob" lol
I really hate watching governments fail the people
*sobs in India*
That’s what governments do……fail people. Governments are there to ensure that people, especially the poor, are miserable.
that's when you start a revolution
@@awesome1ru A revolution without a plan after the revolution itself is useless. You can accomplish change without a revolution
I have bad news for you going back about 7000 years.....
*the rio olympics were only a year ago*
me watching in 2020:
@@joaquin991 woke up on the wrong side of the bed?
me watching in 2021:
@@Danish_Khan1021 me watching in 2027: 🤡
imagine all this buildings have been abandoned for 4, almost 5 years
@@vivac995 it isn't anymore!!!
What a shame...
Top10Archive It should've been expected. This city is a mess.
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Best Olympics was London 2012. The stadiums that were built for the Olympics, are still being used today.
Bob Bob Same here in the USA: our professional sporting venues have been used for decades and are still standing. This, along with the fact that we already have luxury 5-star hotels everywhere for the athletes to stay in, could be why we have hosted the most Olympic Games of any country, no?
@@aycc-nbh7289 My original comment was two separate statements. I wasn't saying London 2012 was the best just because the venues are still in use today.
blah those olympics were a snoozefest, at least rio had some culture and scenery.
@@candletabletop154 Is culture a unit of measurement? How much culture does it take to beat "some culture"? Because there's plenty of culture in London. Scenery, too. London might not have a giant, shantytown slum right beside it but it does have castles, royal palaces, the houses of parliament, Big Ben etc etc
Exactly
Those skyscrapers look really creepy. Everything is so empty, feels like a liminal space
Liminal spaces are so complicated yet so simple
reminds me of the abandoned buildings in chernobyl
Those skyscrapers are now in use. Not empty anymore
@@brxnqt that's really good if they are
The thing is, it was privately built and owned, and as a real estate project was a flop... Now in 2024 is better but those high end apartments still pretty much empty. And this was a surprise because the atlet's villa in 2007 Pan-American games were very inexpensive and sold every single unit in days, but also a flop after the games with problems of public transportation, land issues and degradation.
As a brazilian, i didn't know that. So sad think that the other side of the world is having an amazing olympic with so talented people while Rio looks like a apocalypse cenary :(
Neither do I.
Tipo eu acabei de ver isso e eu n sabia disso não e eu moro jo RJ
This is pretty common after olympics happen sadly. Just really sucks :(
@@Charlie-hv3dh it's common in every place?
As a brazilian, you should know that this would certainly happen.
That is not the case for most things shown, they are much different and better used now. A guy just posted a 2021 update with a good summary.
No disrespect but the games should never have been held in rio. They weren't economically ready it was too rushed. People were evicted from their homes. A huge waste of money for a temporary event. Terrible investment nobody benefited but the evil government. Everyone saw this coming the whole thing was inevitable with a crooked government in charge
Don't forget Brazil hosted the World Cup two years before that
But the government is fucking even more broke than they were before funding the Olympics! They hosted them to say to the world Brazil's like the UK, we can host them, but look at London now it's amazing!! Brazil just wanted to show off and look good on the world stage no matter the cost.....
TJ Williams y
Beijing also evicted people to build venues in 2008 and as spectacular as it was beijing is still paying for it today
Keep in mind, they bid for the Olympics in 2009.
Why not convert the hotels into cheaps apartment.
That's just too right, this world dont care for no one but their damn money
Ylang Ylang are you dumb fam, that’s not the reason, the reason is it’ll cost way too much to clean them up again and start making them a livable space again
the hotels are used, I have a friend who lives there, but very few actually
Because they won’t be cheap? If you offer to rent low but each room is huge (relatively) then you won’t even profit off the utilities. It sounds like a great idea but who would willingly lose money to open cheap apartments if it wasn’t dirt cheap to purchase/build, and operate.
Because that's not the Brazil way
Bruh compare this to Sydney 2000, every single inch of the park is still spotlessly maintained and in use. And Bicentennial Park is still absolutely beautiful and a perfect day out.
I could be mistaken but I believe the Sydney 2000 was the first ever olympics in history to return a profit to its host country/nation.
Even London 2012. The olympic park is now a part of the city and in use.
Every Sydney Olympic facility is still used and maintained 👌
Same here in Munich. I think all olympic facilitys from 1972 are still in use. The main statium hosts a lot of concerts in the summer. The Park is always full of people and spotless clean/maintained. And the Olympic City was converted to a residential area. Which is very popular among students.
@@TheMactonic Maybe Germany can host the Games in 2036 in Munich? If the Olympic Games are still a thing by that time.
Without wanting to deny the main message of the video. But let's go to the 2021 UPDATE:
- The photo used of Maracanã was before the renovation. Today, the stadium is widely used for soccer and concerts. It is in perfect condition;
- The Aquatic Center (which was temporary) was dismantled. The structure of the swimming pools was distributed to 6 schools in the region;
- The buildings of Athletes Village are practically all occupied or sold;
- The Deodoro arenas were transferred to the private sector, where events are held (including Rock in Rio);
- Guanabara Bay really sucks. Its general condition has regressed since 2016, it's a shame.
Thank you!
Great to hear that they're fulfillung atleastpart of the promise post-olympics.
Good to know anyway
Nice!
It was a monumental waste of money and those apartment in the Olympic village could be homes for the poor, NOT luxury condos
If they were homes for the poor how would the water and electricity get paid?
TASaviour : Brazil isn't for beginners! You'd be surprised on how miserable life conditions can be depending on your social level! 😉
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corruption is the killer of countries.
WZTwiggs it has a lot to do with it.
WZTwiggs you’re honesty blind. The olympics in Rio is a great example. They tried to make their country look good by hiding the favelas by tearing them down, instead of helping them. All the money they could use to help their people was spent on the olympics. This is because of the greedy corrupt government. Corruption has a lot to do with this.
WZTwiggs I live in Rio. It was supposed to be one of the best cities in Brazil but instead it's one of the most violent ones and now it's bankrupted. A culture raised to be corrupt is what caused this and other problems here.
WZTwiggs Kinda. The statesmen were eager to held the games here so that they could deviate money from the public funds with overpriced construction projects. After the games the state of Rio de Janeiro bankrupted. It's not the games fault if you see them only as an event, but when you look at the bigger picture these games screwed with the whole city and state.
Actually I wished they weren't held here. The Americans wanted so badly to host the games, why couldn't they?
It’s a very well known fact that countries after hosting the Olympics are worse off. Especially, if they spent millions building new buildings that will get abandoned.
Not China. You should see the park surrounding the Beijing olympics. So well used and organized.
The property around it went up.
The london 2012 venues are still used and the olympic village provided many new homes and rejuvenated the area which was a poor area before the games.
@@James-st9uu Rejuvenation not for the benefit of local people. With the increased development, housing and rent prices soared, stimulating a sharp rise in homelessness. Not to mention the evictions that made construction of the Olympic Village first possible.
@@loftilofi9678 they didn't evict a single person, get your facts straight
i live in vancouver but i have no idea what happened after 2010 lmao
I bet the homeless population would love to stay in one of those empty buildings....even without power. Like, if you're not going to turn the power on you can at least give them a safe place to sleep at night.
You have no idea how fast that would go wrong. It’s impossible.
Riiiiiight. If it doesn't make their government money then it's useless to them.
@@BrianP1217 yes, because pushing homeless, drug addicted, orphaned, jobless and lower class people into big beautiful buildings just screams “good idea”
@@SxGaming3390 I bet you couldn't
pull a needle out of your butt with a tractor
@@caseyjo8403 *yawn*
We should make a wii sports resort type island for the olympics
halfinfected Bloody genius 😂😂
This is actually a good idea
Poofesure is off having a stroke somewhere
and pollute nearby ocean water... sorry
Definitely
the olympics is a terrible waste of money in most areas
tcbobb16 tcb, even if future Olympics are to be held in rich countries, it's still a waste since it could have been allocated for other resources. These days, the Olympics are political. It's just a way for countries to boast their wealth.
TurtleShroom only 1 Olympic in the last 100 years?
And yet there are countries which continue to bid and are in no position to host it. Like Brazil for instance.. Looking at this result is kinda sad
That's why Colorado gave a big fuck off for it
MIKEDOES definitely not, the olympics in london 2012 were a huge benefit. we got the largest shopping centre in europe cause of it, a humongous olympic park that surrounds the venues and all the venues are still used to
this day, i swim in the aquatics centre myself. the 2012 olympics changed stratford as an area and the way everybody views the whole of east London as it used to maintain a terrible
reputation. for london, the olympics made a huge boost.
Most Peruvians were afraid that this happened after the Lima 2019 Panamerican Games. Corruption also is a great issue in Peru. But it wasn't the case so far, the venues are still used, even so, during the Pandemic, most venues were used as hospitals or vaccination centers.
That is good! I feel so bad for the people of Brazil and how their government wasted so much money on the Olympics.
That’s what they need to do. Multipurpose those buildings. Same thing going on with Greece.
*were
Doubtful that Japan's venues will end up the same way. They're usually very good at public works.
yeah, Tokyo is doing a good job
Well yea japan isnt a third world country
@@christianmoraes7206 Brazil is not third World. But brazil has bad government all the time
@@grafzahl4698 u ever been there??
@@grafzahl4698 third world/massive inequality in standard of living/shit GDP/insane crime rate - they all correlate.
Give the stadiums to local clubs, convert the condominiums into students accommodations and open up the parks for the public.
everything doesn't have to be for profit For Fucks Sake
Driz M it's just that they have no more money, they can't maintain it anymore and leave it to dust
How can a local club mantain a 50 thousand seat stadium?
LoftySafe_ 095 //That's the thing that bothering me. Why they don't sell it or even auction those unused facilities, or even maybe sell them to the lower middle class with cheap credit (for the athlete village). Sure, it would be cheaper than the cost to built it, but I think it's a better choice than to let them going further into disrepair. Are the ruling party want to 'auction' the facilities to their families and friends?
murmurrrr my best bet would be to tarp the upper levels, at least make some good use of it.
They won't because it will drive down the rent price and create a real estate/property bubble collapse.
michael phelps won his last gold medals in pools that are now only puddles
That is actually sad :(
Phelps retired (someone asked what happened to him for context)
@@fakeboi_ really?
@@fakeboi_ how many years did he compete? And how many medals did he win?
@@VincentVincent_89 he competed at 5 olympic games but only won medals at 4 of them. he won 28 medals in total, 23 of them are gold. his last olympic game was Rio 2016 hope that helps :)
I'm so glad as a brit seeing this that our stadiums are still in full use, I quite often ride at Hadley mtb track, the stadium is west hams, aquatic stadium still used, apartments now used, and lee valley white water is a brilliant course still
yeah and i dont think they built some stadiums like the lee valley hockey center was already there I think they just added stands
Maybe the same set of cities should have Olympics always. Tokyo, London, etc. the cities that can maintain the infrastructure.
They should just hold the Olympics in the same stadium every time. It's too much of a waste to build all of this every four years.
Right! Nothing but means of forcing a government to go into debt; The borrower is slave to the lender.
@House Of Fleapit part of the reason Greece’s economy collapsed was because of Athens 04 bruv
@@SloppypapiBeefboi Yes but if they didn't have to build so many new facilities, like every host city does, it would be more economically manageable by a long shot
I think part of what makes it globally special is that it’s held somewhere different each time
All of the stadiums and pools created for Mexico's 1968 olympics are still open for the public, athletes train in those facilites. The olympic village is used as middle class apartments.
Los Angeles had a way different outcome in 1984. The whole thing was profitable. The same model will be used for 2028. Don't build venues that will only be used for a few weeks and then when it's all over run away. Refurbish facilities that already exist.
roachtoasties LA wasnt profitable immediatly, now yes, but Atlanta '96 were the only Olympic Games to be immediatly profitable for the state/country/people
Some quick research and I see Atlanta ended up with about $20 million in profit. Los Angeles was about $232 million, which is probably about a billion dollars in today's dollars. While cashing in isn't an Olympic goal (although successful athletes do) it's good to know cities do not have to be left with a pile a debt and useless/decaying facilities once the games are over.
roachtoasties Huh, I had read somewhere that Atlanta had been the only immediatly profitable games, the more you know I geuss!
Really excited for the Olympics to come back to my hometown LA since 84. Some people don't like the idea though but the only real complaint i heard of is that the legendary LA traffic will reach record highs.
Imperial Redguard I'm just mad that they chose LA again.
mario and sonic would be ashamed
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Exactly what happened in my country, Greece. Greek government got a huge loan to host the Olympics in Greece. Most of the money went to the pockets of the politicians and the rest of the money are the abandoned stadiums of today. This big loan is one of the many factors of the economic destruction of my country. Politicians don't give a shit about our athletes as well. None of our athletes are getting paid to prepare for the Olympics. And guess what, we are still electing the same governments who have been failing us since 1980.
Why every corrupted country is the same? We have the same Ukraine and we also electing the same corrupted people over and over
@@ubobcat Here in malaysia too
Same here in india .they bid only for building stadiums and looting unlicensed money. Those stadiums lay rot after.athletez short get paid at all
What’s even more insulting is that the first Olympic Games were hosted in Greece
@@NoNo-qj3ef They weren't just hosted, the literally originated there.
The olympics should only be given to cities that have proven they wont waste the money, like london for example, the athletics stadium has been converted into a football stadium for west ham united, and even still gets used for athletics at times.
No they shouldn't! Don't be so elitist! (And I say that as someone from Sydney & therefore on the benefiting side if your thoughts were made policy) The theory here was sound, it's just tragic it didn't work out
Hazo
They have a football stadium? I thought they only played soccer there.
LunarX fuck off
Hazo nah if u host it anywhere in Europe right now there’s a very good chance that isis will bomb an event
Finnafish I'd say that would apply to anywhere in the world - that they'd try at least
After the 2000 olympics in Sydney, all the venues are still in use 17 years later!
Same here in Salt Lake City! We're actually bidding for 2030 as well!
Yeh, we are still using our venues her in Sydney, including the ANZ stadium and he Olympic Parks and the apartments
Damian Hodges that’s awesome!
At least the living quarters can be used as apartments with some modifications. But it needs willpower.
Same here In Atlanta we had the Olympics in 1996
The budget we had was just enough to make Rio a metropolitan city, but not enough to maintain it
If y'all don't know, almost the entire city is still in ruins 5 years after. And it will take a lot more time to recover and maybe Rio could be comparable to other big cities in a few decades
oh no 😭
This is why they should just build an island for olympics. Instead of wasting billions of dollars and years of making one just to turn into trash after the events
It's a good idea but it would defiantly cost wayyyy more than the average Olympics that countries host. You can't really build an island without countries then fighting over who rules it and even if it was an independent Island/Country there wouldn't be a way to pay for (aka no currency unless the Island is under a Countries rule) or have maintenance. The reason Rio's stadiums are now deserted is because of the corrupt government/system they have, I'm sure Japan will not have the same issue since they're far more advanced/less corrupt.
I would actually agree- an island although it would at first be expensive it wouldnt have to be rebuilt or moved around
@@youmightknowme642 it will be a one time investment tho
Experts said Los Angeles is the city capable of hosting all events, but other than that, bidders should only be from first world countries, the committee just doesn't care at all.
@@viveksharma6000 yeah I'm not saying it's a bad idea I'm just not too sure that this plan can be done without any conflict. The Olympics are a global event showcasing many different cultures/ethnicities competing for gold, it would be kinda weird if the actual events were only done in one country like for example the USA.
Atlanta after the 96 games came out with no deserted venues. The main Olympic stadium was converted to a baseball stadium for the Braves and now is being converted to a football stadium for Georgia State university. The Olympic village is now housing for Georgia tech students. The Olympic pool is also used by Georgia tech. Atlanta is one of a few Olympic cities where its venues are still being used 20+ years later.
I live in Atlanta and I can say that this statement is 110% accurate. Even the Olympic rowing course up in Gainesville, GA is still being used. It's actually great to see a city keep their promises and give everything back to the people that funded the event in the first place :)
BabyBang17datruth America does it right 🇺🇸
All the stuff from the 2000 Olympics in sydney is used.
BabyBang17datruth In London Olympics we used some stadiums we already had like lords circle for archery and some place for rowing, and the remaining stadiums we built in an underdeveloped area which is now thriving. Now all the stadiums are still being uaed
Los Angeles is another city that still uses there venues
Rio should’ve never been awarded the Olympics.
Sean Mangubat but they wanted it in a third world country and this happened
Rio officials bribed the IOC . No way in hell was Rio a better option than Chicago.
I mean you think rio you think it'd be good but then again it's ate up with people poverty and drugs.
@@michael88h lol because Chicago isn't?
@@UnworthyChicken it's not. Have you ever been? The violence you hear about are a few neighborhoods the media covers to scare white people. Overall, Chicago is no more or less dangerous than any other major city.
This is NOT an isolated incident. Infrastructure built during the Olympics is seldom in regular use post the event.
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All our venues in Salt Lake City are still being used from 2002. Seeing this happening in Rio is so disappointing. All the good and joy that comes with the games when they’re happening now found in disrepair. They could continue to be useful for so many.
This is honestly heartbreaking to see.
Happy to see another Utahn here. Our city did great with the facilities we built!
What a waste of money! So sad! Thats why these events need to be held in developed countries! Imagine if they had invested the money in food or shelter to heelp the poor brazilians!
guillelainez Definitely, if a city doesn't need new stadiums/parks/ sports facilities built in an area where people who can pay for quality housing want to live they have no business bidding to host the games.
guillelainez It's not likely that the IOC will be able to screw over future host countries so badly. They're lucky if they can find a single bidder these days. Tokyo has 2020, Paris 2024 & LA 2028. They're all developed cities with strong infrastructure development.
But South Africa is much richer than Brazil
guillelainez if they didnt spend the money on the olympics it would have gone to the corrupt politians either way,very bad decision to make brazil a host.
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Brazil HDI 0.760, South Africa 0.660.
Brazil GDP.per capita 15.342, South Africa GDP per capita 12.800.
Brazil AIDS population 0,3%, South Africa AIDS population 19,2%.
No comparasion
I will never understand why huge, elaborate structures, buildings, and facilities are always constructed solely for an event that only happens every two-four years and only lasts a week. Sure, it’s a huge, major, international event that the whole world takes part in, but again, IT ONLY LASTS A WEEK.
2 weeks
World cup shit gets crazier
I think every country wants to shown the best image of themselves to the world, and so they build new things just for the event and then just abandon it because it's too expensive / not worth the money to maintain
Vincent Cuttolo but that’s different. Brazil literally moved entire populations of poor people for these facilities just to let them rot. They should’ve been had an all year round stadium that ATL or London has. They wasted money
Its also a chance the government takes to turn the city into a tourist spot (if they make it seem all nice, hence the evicting poor people). If this worked as they planned that's a lot of money being generated.
Just hold the olympics in a whole country instead of a city. No reason they need a pool close to a soccer stadium close to a dirt bike track and all brand new. Just create new parks across the country for each venue.
Although facilities in many other countries are still being used without halting the places
That's disgusting having those homes in the athletes village lying empty while people live in horrible conditions in the favelas. After the Glasgow 2014 commonwealth games the athletes village was used for social housing
well u only see the bad side of the favelas on TV. there is plenty of good .. and i doubt people will leave their legendary neighborhood to go to live in the olympic village.
+Ragnar Lothbrok There's no good side in favelas.
The athletes' village was built by an immobiliaria, that is, a private company that is selling the apartments to guarantee a financial return. The Brazilian government did not spend a penny on this village.
William Barker is the London Olympic village not used as public housing too?
95% of the apartments are lived in and about half are rented at normal prices. The other half is rented at affordable/subsidised prices.
Brazil: builds Stadiums nobody needs
Brazil: nobody uses Stadiums
Brazil: *surprised pikachu*
This is normal here in Brazil, we have a lot of cases like that.
@@TheFireFuchs i thought you guys loved sports , use it for local events
@@hdkeemii8315 not really, actually most _non-poor_ people here don't give a shit about sports
necrotrash that’s completely untrue, Brazilians as a country are passionate about soccer regardless of social status
@@Paulinhanunesm I never lived in Brasil, but that sounds like a stereotype.
Rio Olympics did the opposite of what it was intended to do - improve the perception of Brazil. It just exposed all the systemic flaws of that country. It sad that atleast for the foreseable future Olympics can only be hosted by first world countries like Japan, France and USA
the whole concept of 50 sports being held in a single place, in a different country every 4 years needs to change.
True - Give the rights for same country to host summer and winter Olympics twice .
Impressive. Happened the same in the Euro 2004 here in Portugal. We spent millions to build huge and modern stadiums through the country. Now most of them are abandoned.
Paulo Lameiras CHARISTEAS
I just fact-checked that, and non of them are abandoned. Although, Estadio Algarve does appear to be severely underused and the rest are underused, but to a lesser extent. They definitively are over-sized.
It seems that it's part of Portuguese culture then. It has always interested me how Portugal is one of the poorest countries in Europe and Brazil is also one of the poorest countries in Latin America.
Isabel what do you mean by part of Portuguese culture? I didn't get your point.
Isabel Larraín that was just mean and wrong Portuguese people are not like that
The Olympics should be stopped and banned, it's a huge waste of time, money, resources, and locals living in the area are the ones impacted by all this new construction, home eviction, and the aftermath of the games
Either set a fix place for Olympics, where it will be played every 4 years, so no more land, money, and resources need to be wasted, or just stop building entire new freaking stadiums and villages for an event that only lasts several days
Actualy its more simpler than that just dont host the olympics in a third world country and in corrupt countries lol
Sunny shah The Olympics is a trandition which was started by Ancient Greeks thousand years before. It's part of world's history. It brings people together. You can't throw it away like that.
I dont think the Greeks built new stadiums in Greece every time the Olympics came around. Thats the point, just host it in one place, and thats putting it lightly considering we live in a world where that money should be put to better use every 4 years.
Absolutely not. Everyone is correct, it’s a Greek tradition going back thousands of years. What we can’t do is allow non-financially stable countries to host the Olympics
Keeping up with the lambily It was thrown away and revived around the 1920s. While it is about a century old, maybe converting an area, such as Greece would be betting than a new city every 2 years.
I remember when i was in Tokyo back in 2014, they were already giving out Tokyo 2020 merchandises..
so true, it's kinda sad that they hyped it up so much only for it to be delayed by the pandemic, and now having it hosted without any audience. (ofc safety is important and I'm glad they're doing this, but it's still sad the pandemic had to happen)
Maracanã was never abandoned, is the greatest stadium here in Brazil, holded many international shows and Copa America/Libertadores/other major football tournaments grand finals, about the other structures i have no doubt that our politicians quit as soon as they could no longer embezzle money.
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Different times
The Olympics and the World Cup two useless events that didn't help the people in any shape or form.
Petit most people are too dumb to understand this fundamental fact.
Quasimodo Makes short term money but results in long term debt
If that was the case the olympics wouldnt exist
Quasimodo than explain why only two cities bid on the olympics if it made money?
idk
corruption...
A. G. Yes. The whole Olympic and Pan Am games racket is a big scam, perpetuated over and over in concert with local crooked politicians/ organizers. The same people visit each city, paying off crooked piliticians, so they can steal from that countries taxpayers. Like a pimp using a prostitute, they move onto the next city when they have extracted all of the cash they can. The taxpayers are then saddled with mostly underutilized, high maintenanance facilities that are of little use to the local taxpayers. I never used to think this way, but the proof is in the disasters at almost every host city.
@Jinty7109 fan b17
Jinty7109 fan Amen to that
@Jinty7109 fan i doubt it
This is sooo disrespectful to all of those who died building these arenas, their work is worthless in the eyes of the government 😡
wdym this isn't the great wall of china or smthing no one died
Who died?
@@OmarHashmi-qz1td 11 people died during the construction of the infrastructure for the Rio Olympics, it doesn't need to be one of the wonders of the world to be important, you should get educated about this topic, honestly there's way too much things that happened behind the scenes we watch on tv, another quick way for us to understand a little bit about everything that happened is listening to this song that Declan McKenna wrote whole situation 'Brazil', theres this line in it "but the people are dying to get on tv" that doesn't alludes to people wanting to appear in an international event, it goes directed to the people who died helping with the construction. By the way, with this comment I'm not trying to come up as rude or smt but I would really appreciate if you could get more educated:))
@@ximena-dl4bk Ok didn't know that sry I only mentioned the Great Wall of China because over a million ppl died building it never knew anyone died in construction for the Rio olympics. And I guess if u like Declan Mckenna u should check out The Key to Life on Earth
Every country that has already hosted has the facilities- just reuse/revamp them. Many are still in use by local sporting teams etc. no need to build new shit
Why they dont open it to public or use as training grounds for future atletes?
Andrej Draculesti 13th that’s what they should’ve/were going to do but they didn’t shoulder 🤷♀️
But that means less money for the government that why they wont
I don’t think they had the money to maintain these buildings to begin with. They did it for show
@@Lostinmyhead23 They do, but if you spend more money on "helping" the community, there will be less money for politicicans to cheat us from, so yeah you gotta love corruption and instable countriess smh
y do have the rising sun as ur pic
Imagine winning the Olympics only to get a rusty medal.
and LOTS of money and bonus from sponsors
If you think that people all they need is just a golden amulet you are stupid.
If you win a gold medal, you’ll most likely get sponsors and be able to make your own replica with real gold or at the very least a much better gold coat
It's the sense of achievement and also representing your country as a whole aswell. Not to mention large bonuses by sponsors and governments
Still important
That's so cool! Imagine going to explore those sites 😍😍
I agree that the money invested in the event in Brazil should be better used with social policies and infrastructure, but know that the Maracanã stadium shown in the video is not the same abandoned stadium they are claiming in this article. In fact, there was poor management of the structures in the first year after the Olympics, but the spaces have been used as planned since 2018. The Maracanã Stadium in Brazil is the largest and most functional stadium in use since its construction in 1950 until today. I don't know where you got that information. It host the most football matches in Brazil and the Copa America. and the landfill has been a construction site for the future Rio F1 circuit since 2018. The Olympic park hosts major events such as rock in Rio and lollapalooza every year, 700 thousand people each day during the 7 days of the event only at rock in rio . It is far from being abandoned as stated in this article.
A giant waste of time and resources is what this is.
Jester Jay especially because the Olympics take years to set up
London did right with their stadium, I would hope Pyeongchang and Tokyo do the same
Oh lol, for a second I thought u said Pyongyang
Oh lol, for a second I thought u said Pyongyang
Tokyo uses all of the stadiums it built in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, in fact the Nippon Budokan is a popular concert venue for world-class artists, lots of American singers release "LIVE IN BUDOKAN" DVDs.
And Atlanta and LA did got with their Olympic villages as well.
Radi Bear same, and I was like whaaaaaat
This music is incredible
I don't understand why you wouldn't convert Olympics village into an apartment complex for people who need it. And you could turn the aquatics center into a public pool. Really hope Japan planed ahead to avoid a similar situation.
Still have to maintain it. It will lead to more bureaucracy. Instead should have sold it to private players
I think Japan will be able to manage it better than Brazil did. The next few hosts (France, USA, Australia) should manage well too
@Obi-Wan Kenobi How uncivilized !
knowing japan, they most definitely will handle it well
If I not mistaken much of the world was saying that the Rio Olympics would be a waste of money, and they were right, no "perhaps" about it..
At Least was the cheapest too Huehuehue I'm brazilian but it's life. Rio de Janeiro is a bankrupted state. My city could have host the Olympic Games.
Not to mention all women that were raped by the locals.
Next stop Paris 😬😬
Sydney's entire Olympic Park is still in use to this very day.
But that's because Australia loves sport. Can you imagine building Olympic venues in India for example? The only sports that India plays aren't even in the Olympics.
@@toukyoumasters3494 I don't know what r u talking about but indians play many games Nd they r in Olympics. Nd they don't Even have facilities don't compare India with other countries we just lack facilities Nd they have tons
Same here In Atlanta
Jeff Patterson Atlanta had and still has going for it that it’s a hotbed of the US’s secret weapon for hosting: the NCAA (insert “Olympics succeed in long run through association with an organization every bit as amoral and corrupt as the IOC” joke here)
@@toukyoumasters3494 - India's major sports = singing, dancing, crying? :/
Seeing beautiful fields and stadiums abbandoned really hurts. Many sport lovers would die to be able to play in one of those.
A dumped couch on the beach isn’t because of the olympics … that’s just the locals.
"perhaps they were right" are you kidding? no "perhaps". they were right!
efstrix isn't that the quake symbol?
Goliath Online cool,
The London 2012 games was actually a saviour for Stratford which was in bad need of a regeneration project. The Olympic park is being used as West Hams (A London football team) main ground. The aquatics centre is being used as a regular swimming pool and every other major sporting ground was temporary as the planners knew that they would go un used.
It couldn't have gone better for London. Stratford has been completely transformed. You can walk for hours in the area.
Hopski It’s simply because the Brazil and Chinese government did not think about the future where as the British government did.
It's a similar story for Vancouver 2010. Part of the reason is that most of the facilities used were already existing. But olympic village turned an empty industrial ground into a vibrant mixed-use area. The biggest and best thing is the transit infrastructure built for the games. It used to be a nightmare getting to the airport and south of Vancouver before the line was built.
@@ggorii9229 That's true. But the one lasting positive for Beijing was the massive metro expansion the city built in preparation for the games. They only had 3 lines before, but it's now one of the largest in the world.
Builders are building flats for the rich investors to rent out on the land. It cost millions and 7 years before west ham fc moved in and the rest is pretty much derelict. Athletes village was not built to british building regs so noone can get a mortgage on them so sit there empty. Just alot of people got rich in the corrupt construction of it all.
this is why I believe Houston should be a thought for an Olympics. almost all the facilities already exist and whatever they build will definitely be used
Then how would olympic officials get their shares of money if nothing new is built? :-). Corruption only works when you have projects to build!
@@boong0006 These imbeciles think everything is black and white.
They should just cycle it between nations that already have stable olympic facilities
If they don’t, and really want to host, they should actually have the resources to make one they will maintain.
I like how this pops up right after my geography Teacher shared this video during lesson...hmm
In SOUTH AFRICA, all the soccer stadium are still looking good and used, some facilities are converted to accomodations for students, since 2010 FIFA world cup everything is still great...
Toxic Pussy Farts And what do you mean by that,All place are created by god.
Gyamfi The Manchester Guy What. Are you saying that literally every single place on Earth is fantastic "because god"?
You better be living in a struggling 3rd world village with a smile, or else you need to stop with the nonsense.
Toxic Pussy Farts South Africa is actually very nice, you've probably never been, not saying we should host the olympics there because, well we shouldn't but it's best to know stuff before you make assumptions
Wow, the anger people have on each other is amazing... a simple topic of olympics has turned into politics and Racism... Earthlings are crazy... wish Aliens can come and kidnap me to another planet...
Toxic Pussy Farts its really not😂😂😂
Damn... What the waste a money and Resources for olympic sports , why they didn't make those things into tourism after Rio Olympic ? it could make it more beautiful for the future
Colonel Par
Costs money to run
Corruption, most of the venues were poorly built to begin with, and would cost millions more to upgrade to make safe/habitable. This is part of the problem with the public bidding process, people with influence can underbid, start construction, waste time, then demand more money or else the project will not be completed on time.
One word. Corruption
Because they only served one purpose. The olympics. The rich got their money so now the facilities are not neccesary anymore. Keeping them running or altering them costs much. The profit would be to small to risk. The wealthy don't care about them.
Im from Czech Republic. The capital Prague was about to candidate for future Olympics but there was a crisis occurt in 2008 so Prague decided to cancel the application. I think the crisis was a good thing in that case. Because now the Prague has just one abandoned subway station that was built near the empty area where some stadiums were planned to be built. Luckily they stopped it in time :D
I feel like every country should put money into the buildings and accommodations, not just the host city
I agree every country that participates should splash in more money and those countries that have the most players should put in even more money 💰
They even stole money from my family and i had to move after they destroyed my city and my family company R.I.P Dad
Patriotis a lot
Patriotis who would pay him lol
Mauricio Fonseca oh no
nobo payin shit if u dont believe me check my ig maufonseca20
maufonseca22*
Whenever an Olympics is hosted in a third world country, the government builds all of these buildings with people's money. The workers that build these buildings barely make any money (there are no labour unions in third world countries) and may even work in terrible conditions (people die building them). The Olympics brings in a lot of tourism, which means a lot of revenue, but this steady flow of revenue does not last. After the Olympics is over, most of these buildings are not maintained and are not used ever again. Did I mention that all of the revenue goes back to the corrupt government instead of the people? People that are mostly living in poverty? In Rio, they had to build a structure on a road that exits from the airport because right next to it, there are plenty of people living in shacks. Instead of knocking them all down and providing the people with a decent home, they build a fence because they are ashamed. Oh and they want people to come again, which they won't. This goes for the World Cup, the Olympics and every event like this. *We must bring an end to these atrocities once and for all.*
And not a safe place for tourist. Criminal infested outside the stadium trying to snatch every valuable things you got. Cop just watching do nothing. Unforgettable memories
If I went there with nothing would I still get robbed?
Watching this literally minutes after watching another video, where people bragged about Rio 2016 "going green" as an argument for the underwhelming and tiny Olympic Cauldron they used. I guess this video begs to differ.
to be fair this video was from 2017. How recent is the other video?
0:46 I translated it and it says "We're in recess for pool maintenance. We will return in January
CL tech yeah, that definitely happened.
I am a Canadian and I am very proud of how the Vancouver Games of 2010 materialized. All the facilities that were built are all in use every year. Lots of the facilities that were used were preexisting and were just upgraded for the Olympics. We never spent 10's of billions of dollars for a one time use facility. I think that out of the last 20 years of olympic games Vancouver is the only one being used every year. We also have world class facilities in Edmonton from the 1988 games where all athletes from around the world come to train. The world should learn from us.
*Calgary, not Edmonton
G. West the fuck you mean there isn't much else in Canada, you daft douche
G. West if you say were unimportant, I guess we are just fine that way, having all the luxuries that any first world country has, having 4 of the 10 most liveable cities in the world, and being so close to some of the greatest landscapes in the world. Who gives a shit if we're unimportant. I don't.
On a personal note, I'm not too sure you're loved in any way, shape, or form either, considering the fact that you have to bash another country that you probably have never went to. I would encourage you to not comment any further. You've already make yourself look like a wanker, and are fooling around with a subject you have no business talking about.
G. West y u hate canada
they used one of the Calgaries abandon facilitates in the mounts to film a piece of Inception, but yea the Olympic oval, Olympic plaza people there all the time , Canada Olympic park still used to train and for public use i just think you have to be take into account what the Country really needs at the moment and should have a damn plan on how it will use the facilities after the events are over
Athens & Rio are example of post recovery Olympics. I think the committee need to educate future host to take care everything after the event
Beijing's stadiums and aquatic center is also abandoned. The Chinese government drove out low income families out of the are to build these centers only to be abandoned in less than a year.
This makes me tear up, imagine places where all the top athletes meet and all completed and everyone was having a great time. Now its gone
Everyone knew this would happen prior to the games being played there. I'm not sure what the point is to build brand new stadiums for games that last a summer. It's been shown to be a bad investment time and time again.
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It's a good investiment. With a single stadium you can deviate millions from the public budget.
How about we let North Korea host the Olympics?!? Right guys?
at least they would use it for Military stuff afterwards
I could actually imagine north korea threatening a nuclear war if they dont get to hold the olympics
They did in the Blades of Glory movie with Will Ferrel and the old version of the Fonz. That lady got her head chopped off figure skating.
Its actually in South Korea, and that country is pretty much the opposite of North Korea... Pyongchang is in South K. Pyongyang is in North... So we're good.
Not for nothing they could probably do it, have you seen the amount of effort they put in to show off? Even while struggling to feed its people they still put on quite a spectacle. They have the worlds biggest choreograph show in the world.
School principals there would convert schools into hotel during holidays and earn a huge profit
This is why I think there should be one location for each set of games, and all countries contribute financially for the upkeep. Less waste, less disruption to these beautiful places.
GREECE!!
That would be too logical,and no money to embezzle
Put up a university next to those condos and let the students fix it up themselves to live there lol
Actually a good idea tbh
The only meaningful comment here
no money. all their money go to hosting olympic
Your forgot mexico is gonna pay for it
el g 😂
Rio has got to have been the most disgusting host city of any summer Olympics in memory.
Radi Bear Nazi Germany wasn't a third-world country. They obviously had the money to maintain their stuff- and conquer Europe.
Luckily for the rest of the world, they lost.
Marchant2 Did you at least watch the games? You talk like if you don't have cable. They were THE most beautiful games ever.
What about the games held in Sochi, Russia? They went around murdering all the dogs in the area, including pets. Everything was so badly built that the athletes didn't even have proper bathrooms.
Sochi was the worst place for the WINTER Olympics.
+SCBJQ eh what? Where did you get this bullshit from? Sochi was better than most other Olympics.
"Supposed to" and "Rio" in one sentence? Unheard of.
Australia at least is still using the olympic park, in fact there are plans to refurbish the park into a new modern residential zone while keeping all the still in use facilities such as ANZ Stadium
They should just let the poor live there, have then take care of everything, in exchange for taking turns caring for the grounds. If they don't work, they get kicked out. An hour or two a day would help from each family. That way the rest of the family can work during work hours.
Me: well, it's been 3 years now. How does it look?
Stadium:
Here me out, we take an island and create the “Olympic Island” and we could just use that as the location every 4 years for the summer games
I literally just thought about that😭
yes and governments don't have to spend billions
Tho it's a good idea
But there are flaws or I should say missed opportunities
One is that wherever Olympics have been hosted
That country has a gigantic influx of tourists and also a big growth in sports
Native People become more interested in the games more interested in the various sports.
And ofc the revenue the country gets
And on top of that they will have done some amount of development in their sports with all the state of the art sport complexes
Which are a permanent benefit (if you use it properly not like the video shown )
And well building a top class sports complex in middle of an island is way too hard to manage
You have the waste issues , space issues (you gotta fit the people residencies and the player residencies along with the gigantic complex),
How about we host the Olmypics on the same island every year. Facilities will be used every 4 years, no country advantage, we call it the Olmypic island. Wow crazy idea I know.
Rightttt that would be dope