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World experience of the Olympiads: "saw" all
In the economy
World experience of the Olympiads: "saw" all
November 26, 2012 Vladimir Volkov
Analyzing the costs that will fall on the shoulders of Russian taxpayers in connection with the preparation for the 2014 Games, Ber has already compared the estimates of Sochi and Vancouver, which turned out to be much not in favor of the Black Sea Olympic capital.
Let me remind you that, according to the official report of the Government of the Canadian British Colombia, the organization and conduct of the sports part of the winter games-2010-expenses for the construction of stadiums, organizing competitions and the like-cost the local budget of $ 925 million. The total Olympic expenses, as local journalists calculated, amounted to about 9.3 billion dollars.
In Sochi, these figures, according to current estimates, should be in the region of 6.5 billion and 40 billion dollars, respectively. At the same time, the application for the Sochi Olympiad filed in the IOC in 2007 included a much more modest figure: the total cost of the entire project in it was estimated at about 300 billion rubles. Or about 10 billion dollars. In this regard, it was necessary to increase budget financing ...