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In the past, countries around the world attached great importance to bidding for the Olympic Games, after all, being able to successfully host this world-renowned event can certainly prove their strong economic strength.
In addition, the holding of the Olympic Games can also bring huge tertiary industry income to the local market, which does have many advantages.
But now the situation seems to have changed, and the Olympics have become a hot potato.
The two major developed countries were crushed by the Olympic Games, and now the Paris Olympics have also had many problems.
The Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games has also expressed corresponding worries, and which country will be able to take over the hosting of the Olympic Games in the future?
First, the two major developed countries were crushed by the Olympics
The Olympic Games, which originated in ancient Greece, have a history of thousands of years as the world's largest multi-sport event.
Countries around the world attach great importance to this international event, and are also willing to host the Olympic Games, after all, hosting the Olympic Games can promote their own international status.
At the same time, during the Olympic Games, people from many countries will also come to the host cities of the Olympic Games.
This has many benefits for the increase in the frequency of consumption in local cities and the development of tourism, so many countries are willing to host the Olympic Games, and there is naturally very fierce competition in the process of bidding for the Olympic Games every year.
However, it is worth noting that it is not so easy to successfully host the Olympic Games, and the construction of the event venues and the follow-up of various processes will cost a huge amount of money.
Although this is not worth mentioning compared with the improvement of international status and the income of the tertiary industry, the fact that many countries have hosted the Olympic Games in recent years has proved that the actual economic benefits that can be brought about by the Olympic Games have been significantly weakened.
There are even countries that pay more money than they pay to host the Olympics.
This means that the current holding of the Olympic Games seems to be a bit more than worth the loss, so the Olympic Games have changed from the original sweet potato to a hot potato.
There are a few countries that have been dragged down by hosting the Olympics, and these two countries are Canada and Greece.
Athens, Greece, won the right to host the Olympic Games in 2004, and as the birthplace of the Olympic Games, Greece naturally has a deeper experience in hosting the Olympic Games.
Therefore, we can see that the 04 Greek Olympics were also very successful.
Of course, this is also a superficial phenomenon, in fact, the Greek government is indeed suffering because of the hosting of this Olympic Games.
In order to host the Olympic Games, the Greek government has invested billions of yuan in funds and borrowed as much as 10 billion yuan in foreign debt.
However, after the Olympic Games, the revenue and income in the later period were inversely proportional to the previous investment of the Greek government.
This situation has also forced the Greek government to adjust the development of the domestic industrial market.
In addition to Greece, Canada hosted the 21st Summer Olympics in 1976, but this was arguably one of the most failed Olympic Games in Olympic history.
Since the Olympics have already been boycotted by 29 countries during the event, the scale is also decreasing.
However, in the past development, Canada has invested a huge amount of money to host the Olympic Games.
After the scale of the Olympics was reduced, the corresponding income from the tertiary industry also fell significantly, which eventually led to Canada's debt of $1 billion.
Compared to Greece, Canada has taken a longer time to repay its external debt, at 30 years.
Second, there are also many problems in the Paris Olympics
The experience of Greece and Canada in hosting the Olympic Games can also prove that the economic benefits and international status of hosting the Olympic Games for a country are no longer as obvious as before.
As for the holding of the Paris Olympics in France this year, it can be said that there are many problems.
To put it simply, there are three obvious levels, the first of which is the issue of funding.
You must know that France is no longer as glorious as it used to be, and it was once one of the most developed industrial countries in the world.
However, France is now facing the problem of difficult transformation of traditional industries, and the domestic economic development is also lacking vitality.
There are huge difficulties in the government's financial operation, and it is impossible to complete the construction of the event venues and follow up the various processes in order to successfully hold the Olympic Games under such circumstances.
For this reason, the French side has also requested assistance from other European countries in order to be able to obtain the corresponding financial support for the successful hosting of the Olympic Games.
The second aspect of the problem is the inadequacy of the number of security personnel.
During the Olympic Games, delegations from all over the world come to Paris, France, and there are many other tourists.
As the host country of the Olympic Games, France naturally has the responsibility and obligation to ensure their safety, which also means that the French side needs to invest a lot of security personnel and corresponding funds.
The funding aspect may be relatively easy to solve, but the shortage of security personnel is a major problem.
In addition to these two aspects of the problem, in fact, there seem to be environmental constraints on the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics and the holding of some events in France.
Due to poor environmental protection and cleanliness in the country, the Seine has suffered serious damage.
Some time ago, it was revealed that the pollution problem of the Seine River in France was extremely serious, and Escherichia coli and enterococci were seriously exceeded.
In such a situation, the French side also had to consider the potential threat of holding the opening ceremony and other events in the water.
For this reason, the French side also canceled the previous plan to hold the opening ceremony on the water.
The format of the triathlon has also been changed, and open water swimming competitions may be cancelled.
It seems that there are indeed many problems in the hosting of the Paris Olympics in France this year, and in order to solve these problems, the French side must also pay a lot of financial costs.
As a result, the actual economic benefits and international impact of hosting the Olympic Games in Paris, France, may not be comparable to France's efforts.
Obviously, this is also an Olympics that will not be worth the loss.
3. Olympic Organizing Committee: Who can take over?
Canada and Greece have lost their domestic economies because of the Olympics, and this year's Paris Olympics is also in a situation where there are many problems.
The main problem is that the Olympics are no longer in terms of economic benefits and international impact on a country.
Presumably, in the future, the competition for the qualification of the Olympic Games will not be as fierce as before, but may even avoid it, which is not good news for the IOCOG.
The IOC also needs to consider an important question in the future, that is, who will be able to take over the future of the Olympic Games.
Looking at the whole world, there don't seem to be too many countries that are now qualified to host the Olympics and can afford the huge amount of money required to host the Games, and China is certainly highly anticipated among them.
As we all know, our country successfully hosted the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
The grand scene shocked the whole world and allowed the world to see China's strong economic strength.
The International Olympic Organizing Committee also praised the holding of the Olympic Games this time, and in the follow-up, it also named our country and asked our country to host the 2032 Olympic Games.
Presumably, the International Olympic Organizing Committee also hopes that our country will be able to take over the hosting of the Olympic Games in the future.
It's just that our country may not have the idea of hosting the Olympics now, after all, the actual economic benefits that the Olympics can bring to a country have indeed weakened a lot.
This kind of loss-making business is not worth it.
And judging from the current international status of our country, there is no need to use the Olympics to increase the international influence of the mainland.
As we all know, China has now become the world's second largest economy, and there is a possibility of surpassing the United States to become the world's largest economy in the future.
China has also maintained a detached position in the entire international trading system.
Under such circumstances, there is no need for our country to invest huge sums of money in order to host the Olympic Games.
What's more, our country is now in a period of rapid development, and various domestic industries are transforming to the high-tech level, which is the top priority to enhance our country's economic development strength.
Domestic fiscal operations need to be biased and subsidize the development of various industries in the domestic market so that this transformation process can be realized more quickly.
As for the actual benefits and positive impact of hosting the Olympics on our country, it is certainly very small, and this issue may need to be postponed.
brief summary
The Olympics may have been seen by countries around the world as an opportunity to increase their international influence and increase the income of the domestic tertiary industry, but now the Olympics are no longer as brilliant as they once were.
The real economic benefits and international impact on a country have become less and less significant, and it is likely to be a loss-making business.
Not to mention the fact that Canada and Greece, two countries that have been dragged down by hosting the Olympics, even the current Paris Olympics in France are in full condition, and it is likely that it will be an Olympics that will not outweigh the losses.
It seems that the Organising Committee will also need to consider the hosting of the Olympic Games in the future, so that it can continue to be an international event.
As a country that has successfully hosted the Olympic Games, China is naturally highly anticipated by the International Olympic Organizing Committee, but our country does not seem to have the idea of hosting the Olympic Games now.
Of course, this does not rule out the possibility that the mainland will host the Olympic Games in the future, and our country may host the Olympic Games again in the future to reproduce the glory of this international event.
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