Known as the “Olympic Legacy,” the decade after a city hosts the games is often quite prosperous. With an enhanced infrastructure system in place, the city is often a tourist and corporate business haven. The city reap the benefits of enhanced public transportation and will often secure future sporting events due to the excitement of […]
The data was all for summer host cities. If someone finds investment information about any of the games not listed above I’d like to see it please. The International Journal of the History of Sport “A Brief Historical Review of Olympic Urbanization” by Hanwen Liao and Adrian Pitts – Excerpt – – Planning […]
This is a great website that shows you were many of the summer Olympic sites are and has images that relate to that site in many cases. Look to the left hand margin for the different Olympic host cities. http://www.stadiumatlas.com/
Link here “Gearing up for the 2016 Olympic Games to be held here, officials celebrated plans for a futuristic “Olympic Park,” replete with a waterside park and athlete villages, promoting it as “a new piece of the city.” There was just one problem: the 4,000 people who already live in that part of Rio de […]
As shown in the graph displaying the number of countries broadcasting the Olympics and the revenue received from it, the fees for broadcasting the Olympics in the U.S. as greatly increased. Since the start of the broadcast of the Olympics in the 1960’s the fees that television networks were willing to pay for broadcasting […]
Link here. “When it comes to cycling apparel, it’s right that style plays second fiddle to safety. But if high visibility can be achieved without making the ultimate sartorial sacrifice, so much the better. With its Sporty Supaheroe cycling jacket, the Utope Project aims to achieve just that – integrating 64 RGB LEDs into its […]
