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Los Angeles Could Be One Of The Few
Cities The Olympics Can't Ruin
In just the past several years, six cities—Boston; Rome; Stockholm;
Hamburg, Germany; Krakow, Poland; and Oslo, Norway—have decisively rejected the
idea of hosting the Olympics.
The games' high costs, damaging effects on poor communities in the
places that have recently hosted them have turned cities, against them—fostering
the belief that "nobody wants to host the Olympic Games anymore."
But Los Angeles is different. And on Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council
made final decision to try to get the chance to host the 2024 Olympics, taking
the step Boston and many others never did. In LA, organizers promise they can hold
an Olympics that stays within its $5.3 billion budget Organizers in every possible
host city make the same promise. But when it comes to LA, where residents greatly
support the plan, even people who doubt the Olympics believe that success in hosting
the Olympics without any loss might be possible. "It's basically sound,"
said Smith College economist Andrew Zimbalist, who wrote the book on the
financial risks the Olympics bring to cities and their taxpayers. "I think
they'll be able to do it without any financial downside, although there is
always some risk attached."
There's another reason to believe LA could succeed: It's done it before.
It last hosted the Olympics in 1984, when the Olympic turned a small profit. No
host since has replicated that feat.
The Los Angeles Coliseum, which was used for the 1932 and 1984 Olympics,
will again serve as the place of the games, along with a new NFL stadium set to
open in Inglewood in 2019. There's no need for a new Olympic village, thanks to
dorms at UCLA. When LA announced its final three stadiums this month, chairman
Casey Wasserman said proudly that a Los Angeles Olympics won't require any new
construction—instead, it will rely entirely on already planned or temporary (临时的) places.
