Olympic Venues Then And Now

Beijing hosted the 2008 summer olympic games.

Olympic venues then and now. The venue was used to host the beach volleyball competition in 2008. Just six months after the summer games cnn reports that the maracanã. A decade later many of those once bustling venues lie abandoned. Greg baker s pictures capture the remarkable change.

It once held up to. Beijing china 2008 xxix summer olympic games. Overgrown with grass and sitting empty the stadium now joins the long list of wasted olympic venues. Every two years the world convenes on a single city to cheer on the world s greatest athletes.

From an olympic standpoint the games were a success. Germany has had a rough go of hosting the olympics. Unlike a lot of beijing s olympic venues which have been abandoned or fallen into disrepair the beijing national aquatic center has since been renovated and transformed into one of the coolest water parks in beijing. People in the united states and europe had petitioned to boycott the games but the nazi olympic games went on as planned.

After the races have been won and the medals handed out the city returns to its original status. For many greeks who swelled with pride at the time the games are now a source of anger as the. Atlanta s olympic venues have met many different fates ranging from demolition to mlb stardom centennial olympic stadium now turner field will have hosted atlanta braves games for 20 years. A decade after the sporting extravaganza many of its once gleaming olympic venues now lie abandoned.

The olympic flag and the nazi flag fly side by side in olympic stadium 1936. The venues that once dazzled audiences during the 2016 olympic games in rio de janeiro have now fallen into disrepair. Berlin summer and winter 1936. But when the medals have been won and the crowds have returned home olympic cities without a post event plan for sporting venues find the dust settles quickly.

Take a look at the then and now of the legacy left behind.