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Olympic Games In Rio Or Bust By Matt Sandy

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Most people watch the olympic games and enjoy seeing the athletes who are representing our country win gold medals. Those massive venues that host the games cost around 4.5 billion dollars to build. Many people think the games can regenerate the money lost on building it, but studies show that they actually lose a massive amount of money. The olympic games can be a benefit to the states that are competing in it, but can be a massive detriment to the cities that hosted them.
An article I read dealt with a city that held an olympic game and paid an enormous price for it. This article is called Rio or Bust written by Matt Sandy. In Sandy’s article he claims “ Rio hosted the Olympic games in 2016 and lost 2.5 million dollars”(4). He justifies
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