OT - the "Bird's Nest" is already obsolete
Beijing wants the five-month-old tenantless stadium to "anchor a shopping complex." Uh, good luck with that.
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-birdsnestfuture&prov=ap&t…
The Olympics are fun while they're going on, but honestly, is it really worth it to a city to spend gigantic sums of money building new sports facilities when most of them have no use after the two weeks are over?
January 30th, 2009 at 11:03 PM ^
I thought you were talking about that stupid movie. Both apply, I suppose.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:41 AM ^
I clicked on this link thinking this was a profound insight to guide the meandering plot of "Lost".
January 31st, 2009 at 11:32 AM ^
I thought you were talking about the FBR Open. And I can promise you that as of last night, it's still alive and well.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:40 PM ^
parts of Kentucky are out of power possibly till mid february and Sri Lanka rules out cease-fire with rebels
January 31st, 2009 at 11:23 AM ^
gosh, man, it's so bad down here. when ever you're driving on the interstate, you see armadas (on land, of course) of electric trucks. apparently, someone said it's closer to half than just parts. regardless, it's really bad.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:02 AM ^
Bunny ranch. Kentucky is the same whether there is a state of emergency or just bourbon.
Und jetzt fur etwas ganzlich anderes.
January 31st, 2009 at 3:35 AM ^
I think that it is worth it if the host city has a plan in place before the games. In most cases the facilities are put to good use afterwards. But it doesn't really surprise me that China fucked it up.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:51 PM ^
For instance, they extended their subway lines pretty dramatically as part of the Olympics. Beijing desperately needs mass transit (besides buses), and assuming that the new lines are still running I think this was a good decision.
Having said that, they built so goddamn much for the Olympics that it's inevitable that a fair amount of it is going to be wasted.
January 31st, 2009 at 11:31 AM ^
olympics that i can remember Atlanta is the only city that had a sound plan in place. the olympic stadium got turned into turner field,they split the georgia dome down the middle and used one side for basketball and the other side for gymnastics and other sports i think. and i aslo believe that they used a lot of GT's facilities for other events.
then you have cities like montreal who went so far in debt that i think they are still paying it off.