Olympic Spirit: Thriving In Russia

[ChillDoubt]

..or at least a select few are!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22720228

From the link:
The authors say they reached their conclusions by looking at the gap between the original estimate and the final cost and also comparing it with cost overruns at previous Olympics.

"The expenses for the Winter Olympics in Sochi turned out to be more than all expenses for all the sports structures at the previous 21 Winter Olympics put together," the report says.



If true, that's pretty scandalous by anyone's reckoning.

[ichkeria]

Yes, it is. Unfortunately it's how it works there. Enormous amounts of money "disappear" into the hands of a very few powerful people. The world cup will be exactly the same, although hopefully without the huge ecological disaster that is the Sochi "Games"