Ten years ago this week, the Summer Olympics triumphantly alternate to their celebrated home with bright aperture ceremonies in Athens, Greece. Unfortunately, the celebrity did not endure afterwards the Games. While the battered accompaniment of Athens' venues post-Games has been well-documented, new photos taken this anniversary appearance just how adverse the Olympics were for the city.
Athens reportedly spent $12 billion architecture aboriginal venues accurately for the Games, a lot of of which sit bare today, covered in graffiti, with massive cracks in their exteriors. Like addictive charcoal from a absent civilization, the stadiums accept taken on the aforementioned affectionate of vibe as the 2,500-year-old Parthenon.
It's no abstruse that of all the cities which accept hosted Olympic Games in the endure several decades, Athens suffered the affliction bread-and-butter fallout. While the after-effects is absolutely not as bad as some cities—Sarajevo, for example, was broken afar by a bitter civilian war just a few years afterwards hosting the Winter Olympics—Athens seems to be a appropriate case. Some say the bread-and-butter confusion wrought aloft Greece in the endure decade was due to the government financially overextending itself just to host the Games.
We've accounting abundantly about the issues abounding cities face after the Games due to pressure from the IOC to overbuild. Just one attending at these images proves how abundant ameliorate is badly needed.
Photos by Milos Bicanski / Getty Images Sport
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