Games legacy almost non-existant with stadiums falling into disrepair Athens motto was 'welcome ... unable to invest in the upkeep of the Olympic venues. Country ...

leaving 36 abandoned venues. Eight of those 36 venues come from one Olympic Games, Athens 2004. Nearly 20 years have passed since the Olympics returned “home” to Athens and according to ...

Fighting the history of abandoned Olympic venues Chan cautioned against the lofty dreams of Olympic venues, especially given their history of abandonment. "We have to be careful about the example ...

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 ...

It's hard to believe that Rio hosted the Summer Olympics just six months ... only to then watch silently as the venues begin to decay and become abandoned.

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 ...

The report is the first-ever official inventory of the 817 permanent and 106 temporary Olympic venues dating from Athens 1896 to ... inactive or abandoned. Some were destroyed during wartime ...