Growth or decline

Cities often tout the economic benefits that hosting an Olympics will bring. But while this is generally assumed to be true, the wide range of estimates - both for the cost and the projected economic benefits - of the ongoing Vancouver Olympic Games suggests that the benefit of loss is not so easy to pin down. The current Olympics has been both warmly embraced and heavily protested, largely on economic grounds, but its still up for debate weather this year will bring income or overall loss





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