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Cost of running the Olympics (journals.sagepub.com)

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X221098741#:~:text=The%20average%20return%2Don%2Dinves

Los Angeles was able to have a surplus as most of the infrastructure was already built before the Games.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think blue and red are supposed to be "Profit" and "Loss", not revenues and costs, since I'm pretty sure all Olympics have both revenues and costs. Also, the Y-axis is already labeled deficit and surplus, so why not just use those instead of conflicting, misleading terms?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

There is another graph for detailed cost and revenue in the article (figure 2), the one is meant to be a summary to differenciate deficit and surplus