Olympic Venues Then And Now

Greg baker s pictures capture the remarkable change.

Olympic venues then and now. Beijing china 2008 xxix summer olympic games. Every two years the world convenes on a single city to cheer on the world s greatest athletes. 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.

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. Beijing hosted the 2008 summer olympic games. The venue was used to host the beach volleyball competition in 2008. A decade later many of those once bustling venues lie abandoned.

It once held up to. The venues from the rio 2016 summer olympics are already falling apart and they re not the only ones. The venues that once dazzled audiences during the 2016 olympic games in rio de janeiro have now fallen into disrepair. For many greeks who swelled with pride at the time the games are now a source of anger as the.

Overgrown with grass and sitting empty the stadium now joins the long list of wasted olympic venues. After the races have been won and the medals handed out the city returns to its original status. Stadiums were packed and the games were broadcasted in over 28 languages. 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.

Berlin summer and winter 1936. Former host cities like sarajevo athens and beijing have had venues to suffer the same fate. Just six months after the summer games cnn reports that the maracanã. People in the united states and europe had petitioned to boycott the games but the nazi olympic games went on as planned.

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.