An curved arrow pointing right. Every two years, the world convenes on a single city to cheer on the world's greatest athletes. After the races have been won and the medals handed out, the city ...

Most permanent Olympic venues usually see one of three fates, according to the Olympics website: Still in use, dismantled/destroyed or abandoned. Once the Olympics end for a host city, many venues ...

as the spiritual home of Olympic sport hosted the world in the XXVIII Olympiad. The Greeks poured around €9billion (£7.13billion) into building new stadiums and infrastructure, and despite ...

In the worst-case scenario for host cities, Olympic venues go unused after the games and become white elephants - total wastes of space and money. We've seen this at a number of different Olympic ...

Today, the Olympic Village has turned into ... only to then watch silently as the venues begin to decay and become abandoned.

A ONCE proud stadium in Georgia sits abandoned after a failed attempt to ... And its finest hour came when the 1996 Olympics hosted their hockey competitions on the grounds. A 2003 financial ...

Apartment blocks that housed volunteers and media during the 2014 Sochi Olympics have been abandoned a year and ... effectively building sports venues, hotels, transportation infrastructure ...