Future hosts aim for Olympic boost
Hosting an Olympics is a costly gamble, but the opportunity to showcase a city is too much too resist.
Published On 10 Aug 2012
It’s estimated that hosting the London Games will cost the British taxpayer around 14 billion dollars.
Justifying that sort of a spend on a sporting event is one of the most difficult tricks for any host to pull off. Organisers from venue cities for the next two Olympics – Sochi and Rio – are in London attempting to do just that.
Al Jazeera’s Andy Richardson reports from London.
Source: Al Jazeera