Ever wonder what happens to the venues after the competition is finished and forgotten about....


http://www.huffing...ues_n_4825485.html

It's funny because Sochi won't look much different when it's forgotten

Ha.

I was gonna post a pic of the bobsled track in Sarajevo 'cause it's the only abandoned Olympics site I've been to, but there's already a pic in that article, so I won't.

Actually, I did also go to the 1936 Olympic Athlete's village in Berlin, but that's not technically "abandoned" as they do tours on the site though. But a lot of the buildings at the back of the property have been left to decay and they don't take visitors to those. We got caught by security, charged with trespass and fined. And it was a boring site.

Sarajevo was sweet though. Interesting how a city can go from pretty much centre of the world to destroyed in 7 short years.

We found this one abandoned gym that had been used for taekwondo and judo in the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics. It's completely gone now so I made it publicly viewable in the LDB.

http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=30960

*cough* needs to be re-validated *cough*

nonetheless a really cool site and addition to the DB Steed, thanks for hooking us up with that otherwise I probably never would have seen it.

Posted by RescueMe1060 *cough* needs to be re-validated *cough*

*Yawn*

the 1932/1980 winter Olympic venues in Lake Placid NY (near my home) are still in use to this day.

I live in Atlanta, (site of the '98 olympics) and we have quite a few venues here that are left over from the games.

Posted by Nic723 I live in Atlanta, (site of the '98 olympics) and we have quite a few venues here that are left over from the games.

1996

From the little I have heard that the Ice cube was built to be modular. A millionaire in england bought it and is going to move it there.

The greece buildings are really bad from what I heard. Only one of the 22 buildings is being used, from what I heard on tv.

Posted by Nic723 I live in Atlanta, (site of the '98 olympics) and we have quite a few venues here that are left over from the games.

The 1998 Winter Olympics were in Nagano, Japan.

And here is Sochi.
I don't trust these pictures entirely. They might have been taken on a Sunday early morning on a rainy day. Then Rotterdam would look just like that.

http://architizer....fter-the-olympics/

And I can recommend this psychogeography book on this topic:

https://www.goodre...k?from_search=true

http://www.amazon....eywords=ghost+milk

There are chapters on London, Munich, Mexico and Athens.

Posted by Shawn W. The 1998 Winter Olympics were in Nagano, Japan.

That's right, Atlanta was 1996. I remember seeing live on TV when that bombing happened, when I was in Korea in 1996. Then we had to transfer flights in the US shortly after that, which was extra unnerving.

Posted by Steed We found this one abandoned gym that had been used for taekwondo and judo in the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics. It's completely gone now so I made it publicly viewable in the LDB. http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=30960 http://www.uer.ca/...ics/norm/30960.jpg

The shots you posted of that place are fucking incredible.

But anyways, I hope that the Russian venues get repurposed but it wouldn't surprise me if they just sat there unused

they lie, its not a ghost town. there is a little girl jumping on a trampoline in one of those pictures.