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jobs are created and then is immediately lost
LA was in 1932

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Brazilians flooded Copacabana Beach seven years ago, on the day the International Olympic Committee announced that Rio de Janeiro would host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Brazil was not ready to host the 2016 Olympics.

political crisis

Economic crisis
Brazil faces its worst recession in 100 years.
GDP lower.

Health crisis
zika virus -2015
The Zika virus has been linked to microcephaly — a fetal brain defect — in babies born to mothers who are infected with the disease.

police Crisis
Police killings have spiked in the months before the Olympics.
brutal police violence.
Brazilian police rank among the world’s most deadly. They were responsible for 1 in 5 homicides within the city of Rio de Janiero in 2015, according to Amnesty International.
In December 2015, the United Nations accused Brazilian police forces of systematically murdering poor black street children in an effort to “clean the streets” for the Olympics. The country plans to deploy some 80,000 police and military officials to secure the games

environmental crisis
Rio's epic water pollution has been going on for two decades due to a lack of modern sanitation programs.

Houses crisis
An estimated 77,000 Brazilians have been evicted from their homes.
Already coping with widespread police violence, many of Rio’s poorer residents are also being relocated to make way for the World Cup and Olympics.

As many as 22,000 families — or more than 77,000 people — were forcibly evicted in Rio between 2009 and 2015, according to a coalition of Rio activists known as the Comité Popular. The group asserts that more than 6,000 families have lost or may lose their homes as a direct result of infrastructure projects related to the two mega-events.

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– Would cost $23 billion, 4 times the original cost of the 2012 London Olympics
– Hot temperatures of up to 40 degrees and humidities of 80% which could be potentially dangerous for marathon runners etc
– Low amounts of english speakers

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Costing the planet: the sustainability of the Olympic Games | University of Technology Sydney

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One of the only Games in recent history to make a profit was the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, and that was because the organisers did not have to spend a lot of money on infrastructure. The main stadium and other facilities already existed in LA at the time.

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How Much Does Hosting the Olympics Actually Cost? | GetVoIP

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Is hosting the Olympics worth the cost? We compared the setup costs and total profit (or loss) that host countries have faced over the past 40 years.

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Protests against Olympics -> increasing violence

3,000 people protested in Brazil's biggest stadium (Maracana) and burnt various Brazilian flags --> police used tear gas

Tension between government as money should be spent on infrastructure or education (20% of country is illiterate)

Areas near the Olympic Park were cleared from poor residents. Up to 90% of the residents of the low-income area of Vila Autódromo had left.

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Expectations of the 2016 Rio:

29.5 GWh of energy

5.6 million litres of fuel

3.6 million tonnes of CO2 - 1.5 time Rio de Janeiro's monthly emissions

London 2012

Tried to be a 'Green Olympics' and failed

Produced 3.4 million tonnes of CO2

Failure of carbon offsets

Metals in the medals came from a toxic mine

Increased global transportation emissions: 700,000 tonnes

Street congestion from the amount of tourism

Effects on Rio 2016

deforestation of parts of the Atlantic Forest -  in order to build new golf courses.

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Rio Olympics

Massive spending on stadiums (at a time when the government can barely afford wages for doctors and teachers) ->over budget, creates massive debt & might contribute to a national crisis

11 died during construction

Costs are bigger than revenue (Rio cost $11 billion and generated $9 billion)

Costs are partly paid from taxpayers' money, especially when the games are organized in a country where the government does not have enough money or where there are high rates of corruption (hurting the people that don't want the games in the first place)

Cost of hosting the games almost universally rises every time (some of the earliest costing below, or around $1'000'000, whereas the recent ones are well int the billions

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Brings tourists
-More tourists --> trash
-Security for tourists is expensive ($200 million in rio)
-Building hotels

Generate high income
-Costs are bigger than revenue (Rio cost $11 billion and generated $9 billion)
-Costs for building schools and developing favelas are significantly cheaper

Creates jobs
-Jobs generated are only temporary
-Brazilian volunteers were promised free tickets but never given any

Benefits to developers, politicians and others with vested interests

Countries come together
– Heavy rivalry and nationalism can cause outbreaks of fights
– Could increase tensions between countries that expect to well on the same event
– USA, China, Russia win most of the medals

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'Over the past few weeks, reading through the atrocities committed in the name of this global competition brought to mind an apt metaphor for the Olympics. To me, they seem almost like a biblical plague of locusts. They swarm periodically – currently every other year – consuming everything in their path. But the difference is that a locust plague doesn't permanently devastate the landscape.'

'In most places the Olympics swarm, they consume parkland, homes and communities, and replace them with concrete scars in the form of stadiums and hotels that rarely find much use after the horde of tourists depart.'

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Brazil struggles with drought and pollution as Olympics loom large

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Pollution in Guanabara Bay, where Olympic sailing and windsurfing contests are scheduled to be held, is so bad that competitors have described it as an 'open sewer'

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– Redirected $51 billion from public spending into facilities that will go unused after the event
– Apparently, $30 billion of this has been lost to corruption
– 2,000 people, 6,000 acres and countless species were displaced when the stadiums were built

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- Expectations of the 2016 Rio:
29.5 GWh of energy
5.6 million litres of fuel
3.6 million tonnes of CO2 - 1.5 time Rio de Janeiro's monthly emissions
$3 billion subway extension

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– Tried to be a 'Green Olympics' and failed
– Produced 3.4 million tonnes of CO2
– Failure of carbon offsets
– Metals in the medals came from a toxic mine
– Increased global transportation emissions: 700,000 tonnes
– Street congestion from the amount of tourism
http://inhabitat.com/6-ways-in-which-london-2012-has-failed-to-be-the-green-olympics/

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-Massive spending on stadiums (at a time when the government can barely afford wages for doctors and teachers) ->over budget, creates massive dept & might contribute to a national crisis.
- Huge security presence that protected rich foreigners at the expense of poor residents
-Estimated 385 families were evicted from their homes last year to make way for a high-speed bus lane (connecting the international airport with Olympic games village)
-Only created temporary jobs
-Cost ver $10 billion