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The cost of putting on the Olympics is making it harder to find host cities

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Title

The cost of putting on the Olympics is making it harder to find host cities

Media type

Web

Media name

CapRadio

Date

2024-08-02

Producer

Darian Woods, Wailin Wong

Persons

  • Bent Flyvbjerg(Research cited)

Description

The Olympics are thrilling to watch but expensive to host, leaving most cities in the red. It's a big enough problem that the International Olympic Committee is finding it harder to lock in locations for future games. Darian Woods and Wailin Wong of THE INDICATOR crunch the numbers and ask whether it ever makes business sense for a city to host the costly competitions...