“We simply made the biggest mistake in our history.”
The people of Athens were promised it would leave an inspiring legacy, but exactly ten years on since the Athens Olympics the site lies empty, left to decay in the Greek heat.
AP /Thanassis Stavrakis
At the time the Games were the most expensive ever with the original budget doubling to around £7 billion.
The abandoned beach volleyball Olympic venue in Neo Faliro, southern Athens.
AP/Thanassis Stavrakis
Not long after the Olympics, Greece was crippled by the global financial crisis. With the country’s economy nose-diving the legacy of the Games, and the costly venues, was abandoned.
The canoe/kayak venue at the former Helliniko Olympic complex in southern Athens.
AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis
According to Reuters, parts of the Greek population now look back on the Games in anger.
AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis
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