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Olympics Advantages And Disadvantages Essay

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The Olympics are a time of laughter, joy, and excitement as you watch your nation compete in numerous sporting events to compete for the gold. With over 500,000 tourists, 10,000 athletes and 3 billion people watching, the Olympics is by far the most iconic sporting event in the world. Surely with all these tourists, athletes, and broadcaster, the host city must generate a large sum of money. This is faintly the truth, as it takes millions and sometimes even billions to produce the Olympics. Therefore, The Olympics are not an overall benefit to the host city as it 's not economically, environmentally or human-friendly. The Olympics don 't have an overall benefit for the city as a whole economically since it costs an exponential amount. Before …show more content…

A lot of the times when host cities need to build infrastructure like extra roads or railways they will look to places where it is underdeveloped. Imagine if one day police came knocking at your door forcing you to leave through violence, and you were promised a better life but never got one. This is what happened in 2008 Olympics in Beijing, over 1.4 million people were forcibly evicted from their homes with minimal compensation. In fact, whole neighborhoods were destroyed. This is also very similar to the Olympics in Rio in 2016. Whole favelas were destroyed leaving hundreds of thousands displaced. Although they were given compensation for the houses by moving into government built houses, the house often lacked basic human rights. In conclusion, the Olympics has very few benefits if any at all. The Olympics affect the host city economy, the environment and the people in the city. It costs a lot to not only bid for the Olympics but also to build and maintained. Not much of the money is made back from tourism. Normally, the environment in which the Olympics are built destroys the habitat in which it is built in and lastly hundreds of thousands of people get displaced due to the city needing to make new

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