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Originally Posted by goodgrowth
Needs to be combination of the IOC relaxing the requirements for the venue sizes and the cities carefully planning about how the venues would be utilized afterwards.
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The bids in Beijing, Paris, and Los Angeles are all heavily utilizing existing facilities. The Beijing games next year are costing something like 1/8th the cost of the 2008 games. If done well the games don't have to be that expensive, depending on how much legacy-building you want to do.