Sochi’s Bleak Future: What happens to Olympic Cities After the Olympics Are Over? | Alternet

Sochi’s Bleak Future: What happens to Olympic Cities After the Olympics Are Over? | Alternet: 



For a city, there’s nothing quite like the glory of winning an Olympic bid. The highly competitive process starts nine years before the games and involves untold amounts of campaigning and planning. Once selected, fortunate cities have seven years to prepare, updating their infrastructure and building new, impressive facilities. If they pull it off, they get two weeks to show it all off to the entire world. 



Then the Games end, and the world moves on.