Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympic Summer Games Discussion Thread

[Chris Hu]

TomaTito said:

Ka-pi96 said:

I also care that my tax money is being wasted on an event that's going to bring literally nothing to the country. No tourism, no ticket revenue, nothing worthwhile. I'm pretty opposed to holding any event full stop unless it can at least break even and therefore not waste taxpayer money.

Olympics have always been money pits. It was in the Barcelona Olympics of '92 that changed, and one of the first times a host got their money back from tourism revenues. Now countries bids fight to the death, bribing the IOC to get selected.

Shame covid happened, but the damn Olympics would have also delayed my Japanese trip by one year due to the hike of prices that come with it. They need their money back ;)

I'm pretty sure the Dream Team helped a lot in sparking interest in the '92 games.  They also spend a ton of money promoting it so yeah I can see why it was profitable.