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Maracanã Stadium, which held the opening and closing ceremonies, and several of the Rio Olympics' biggest events, is reportedly abandoned and plagued by looters.

Six months after Rio de Janeiro hosted the first-ever Olympics in South America, questions are being asked about the Legacy organizers said would benefit the city's residents, as venues languish in a state of disrepair.

Quartz explores the “ After Life ” of some of the venues used in the four most recent Olympics.

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 .

Rio is hiding poor people?! The 2016 Olympics are set to begin in just over a month in Rio de Janeiro. As the city prepares to receive an influx of international visitors, it is building new infrastructure and transportation systems to accommodate the surge. But the city is also undergoing another major project: hiding and removing poor people from view of foreign onlookers . W hen you leave the International Airport of Rio de Janeiro, and head towards the south of the city, which is where all the beaches are, you pass a sprawling informal settlement called Maré. It's one of hundreds of neglected shanty towns like this in Rio. It goes on for miles! But when you pass by there today, all you see is this wall! L ook at this map of Rio: Here's the part that you probably know. It's the South Zone it's where all the iconic beaches are. Maré is in Rio's North Zone which is where most of the city's poor live. T his acoustic barrier, according to t...

Smith College Professor Andrew Zimbalist discusses Boston 2024, and the U.S. Olympic Committee's new public opinion poll.

What happens to stadiums after the Olympics , or the World Cup? It’s a challenging question for every host city. While some stadiums have survived as tourist attractions, many others are collecting dust .

S ix months after hosting South America’s first-ever Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Rio de Janeiro venues – some of which have been looted –  sit mainly idle and already in disrepair ,  raising questions about a Legacy that organizers promised   would benefit the Brazilian city and its residents. Fri 10 Feb 2017 11.08 GMT

With the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games being controversial before the opening ceremonies had started, the world’s greatest sports competition isn’t all gold medals and Usain Bolt winning every 100 meter race . WatchMojo looks at previous host cities in Beijing, Montreal, Los Angeles, London, Athens and more, and the effects economically & socially that the Olympic games had on these cities. Although Rio de Janeiro had to deal with the Zika Virus , poor athlete’s village conditions , political problems and poor Environmental conditions in the host city, previous Olympic cities also had problems, controversy and scandal . Chicago spent 100 million dollars and didn’t even get an Olympics , China moved tons of residents to build Olympic venues , and Athens 2004 sparked the beginning of Greece’s economic problems within the Euro Zone .

With Boston’s bid collapsing due to lack of support,  it seems now more than ever the Olympics exist solely for cities looking to make a political statement . T he reason Boston’s residents didn’t want to be Athens is the same reason the residents of Oslo, or Krakow, or Stockholm, don’t want to be Athens.  Hosting an Olympics is a corporate sinkhole sucking billions of dollars, and a city’s future into a bottomless abyss of excess. The internet is clogged with slide shows of empty, broken, useless stadiums built in the euphoria of a coming Olympics or World Cup then abandoned soon after, allowed to fill with weeds, rodents and other signs of human escape.  Is there a better sign of Greece’s collapse than a pile of useless sports facilities crumbling since the torch went out in the summer of 2004?  What use did Athens have for a baseball stadium anyway ?  It’s crumbling among the weeds just like the field hockey venue,  the canoeing center ...

The Olympics have killed off business for dozens of South Korean companies who rely on ski and snowboard rentals during the winter. They only have five months a year to make a living, but with Olympic preparation and ski hills getting closed to public access, their business has disappeared. They've asked for compensation or an apology from Olympic organizers, but have gotten neither.

Why Hosting The Olympics Isn't Worth It Anymore ? 10 reasons why no one wants to host the Olympic games anymore. T hey’re the pride of hundreds of countries, and the joy of billions of viewers. The Olympics are the best athletic events in international competition , and even the most indifferent sports-viewer is compelled to pay attention - at least a little. Even if one refuses to watch,  they would be reluctant to besmirch the Olympics on purely diplomatic grounds. Because hating the Olympics is hating positive global relations , for which the world is desperate. Often the only reconciliation between feuding countries happens at the Olympics, so who would want to criticize such a positive  institution  of friendly competition? We will. It’s not the Olympics we have a problem with, but the hosting . It’s become clear that host cities can’t provide or sustain the requirements for Olympic competition , and instead of improving the cities’ circumstances,  t...

It's no secret that it's a pricey pain to host the Olympic Games, running billions of dollars above the estimated budget. AstheInternationalOlympicCommittee receives fewer bids with each problematic games, t he future of the tradition is looking unsure. We spoke with Smith College Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist on the matter. He should know, he's written about the Olympic issues in Circus Maximus, No Boston Olympics, and Rio 2016.