With the current system it honestly doesn’t make economic sense for a poorer city to host the Olympics - it just hurts the local economy overall, being extremely expensive and leaving huge wasted construction and disruption in their wake, and there’s a reason applications have been drying up.
But then we don’t want it to be the exclusive preserve of richer cities which have hosted it before. Something needs to change.
Maybe letting it be shared between several cities, or hosted across a nation/region like most major world cups? And maybe with a more international system of funding?
With the current system it honestly doesn’t make economic sense for a poorer city to host the Olympics - it just hurts the local economy overall, being extremely expensive and leaving huge wasted construction and disruption in their wake, and there’s a reason applications have been drying up.
But then we don’t want it to be the exclusive preserve of richer cities which have hosted it before. Something needs to change.
Maybe letting it be shared between several cities, or hosted across a nation/region like most major world cups? And maybe with a more international system of funding?