Olympic Venues Then And Now

But when the medals have been won and the crowds have returned home olympic cities without a post event plan for sporting venues find the dust settles quickly.

Olympic venues then and now. The venue was used to host the beach volleyball competition in 2008. Greg baker s pictures capture the remarkable change. Overgrown with grass and sitting empty the stadium now joins the long list of wasted olympic venues. Beijing china 2008 xxix summer olympic games.

Unlike a lot of beijing s olympic venues which have been abandoned or fallen into disrepair the beijing national aquatic center has since been renovated and transformed into one of the coolest water parks in beijing. Atlanta s olympic venues have met many different fates ranging from demolition to mlb stardom centennial olympic stadium now turner field will have hosted atlanta braves games for 20 years. From an olympic standpoint the games were a success. Stadiums were packed and the games were broadcasted in over 28 languages.

A decade after the sporting extravaganza many of its once gleaming olympic venues now lie abandoned. Take a look at the then and now of the legacy left behind. The venues that once dazzled audiences during the 2016 olympic games in rio de janeiro have now fallen into disrepair. The olympic flag and the nazi flag fly side by side in olympic stadium 1936.

Berlin summer and winter 1936. Just six months after the summer games cnn reports that the maracanã. It once held up to. The venues from the rio 2016 summer olympics are already falling apart and they re not the only ones.

A decade later many of those once bustling venues lie abandoned. For many greeks who swelled with pride at the time the games are now a source of anger as the. People in the united states and europe had petitioned to boycott the games but the nazi olympic games went on as planned. Beijing hosted the 2008 summer olympic games.

Every two years the world convenes on a single city to cheer on the world s greatest athletes.