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Read here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/s...-2022-winter-games-are-melting-away.html?_r=0
Oh great! Thank you Putin!
Sochi has certainly played a role even if that cost figure continues to be misleading, incorporating huge infrastructural investments not directly related to the staging of the Games.
"People think it’s too expensive to host a Winter Olympics now and that it may be too big,” said Gerhard Heiberg, the Norwegian International Olympic Committee member who was the head of the Lillehammer Organizing Committee for the widely acclaimed 1994 Winter Games and is a driving force behind Oslo’s faltering bid.
Oh great! Thank you Putin!