Facilities from Sarajevo, Athens, and Beijing are all empty, and the photographs are mind-blowing.

Billions are spent building brand-new, state-of-the-art venues for the Olympics. But what happens after the Games leave? A sad trend these days is to simply abandon them to decay and rot. This article tracks down abandoned Olympic venues from around the world.

Holy sh*t.

It would appear that as quick as olympic venues are put up these days, they fall even faster. Here are 30 images of abandoned olympic ... Continue Reading »

Facilities from Sarajevo, Athens, and Beijing are all empty, and the photographs are mind-blowing.

The Rio Olympics is the 28th Summer Olympic games. The first one took place in Athens in 1896 and since then the games have been held in 19 different countries. But do you ever stop and wonder just what happened to all of those huge venues purposely built to host the world's most famous games?

It would appear that as quick as olympic venues are put up these days, they fall even faster. Here are 30 images of abandoned olympic ... Continue Reading »

A decade after Greece hosted the world’s greatest sporting extravaganza, many of its once-gleaming Olympic venues now lie abandoned

To host the 2008 Summer Olympics , China constructed 12 new venues as well as eight temporary ones . Although Beijing received internation...

Billions are spent building brand-new, state-of-the-art venues for the Olympics. But what happens after the Games leave? A sad trend these days is to simply abandon them to decay and rot. This article tracks down abandoned Olympic venues from around the world.

Sarajevo hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics, but a decade later, terrible conflict ravaged much of the city. Today, many of the former venues lie in ruin.

Billions are spent building brand-new, state-of-the-art venues for the Olympics. But what happens after the Games leave? A sad trend these days is to simply abandon them to decay and rot. This article tracks down abandoned Olympic venues from around the world.

Facilities from Sarajevo, Athens, and Beijing are all empty, and the photographs are mind-blowing.

Holy sh*t.

These stadiums and ski jumps of years past have been abandoned, torn down, and bombed out.

The Rio Olympics is the 28th Summer Olympic games. The first one took place in Athens in 1896 and since then the games have been held in 19 different countries. But do you ever stop and wonder just what happened to all of those huge venues purposely built to host the world's most famous games?

A decade after Greece hosted the world’s greatest sporting extravaganza, many of its once-gleaming Olympic venues now lie abandoned

These stadiums and ski jumps of years past have been abandoned, torn down, and bombed out.

A view of the disused ski jump from the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics on Mount Igman, near Sarajevo, Sept. 19, 2013. Abandoned and left to crumble into oblivion, most of the in Bosnia's capital Sarajevo have been reduced to rubble by neglect.

Holy sh*t.

These stadiums and ski jumps of years past have been abandoned, torn down, and bombed out.

Billions are spent building brand-new, state-of-the-art venues for the Olympics. But what happens after the Games leave? A sad trend these days is to simply abandon them to decay and rot. This article tracks down abandoned Olympic venues from around the world.

Facilities from Sarajevo, Athens, and Beijing are all empty, and the photographs are mind-blowing.

The remains of the Olympic Venues in and around Sarajevo - Winter Olympics 1984 Yugoslavia

Water is drained from the diving pool which forms part of the Olympic Aquatic Centre in the 2004 Olympic Games Complex on February 18, 2012 in Athens, Greece.

Holy sh*t.

Facilities from Sarajevo, Athens, and Beijing are all empty, and the photographs are mind-blowing.

The Rio Olympics is the 28th Summer Olympic games. The first one took place in Athens in 1896 and since then the games have been held in 19 different countries. But do you ever stop and wonder just what happened to all of those huge venues purposely built to host the world's most famous games?

An Olympic Games shrouded in myth and tragedy.

The derelict netting and scoreboard in the background on a tennis court stand at the Stone Mountain Tennis Center, home of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games tennis events, in Stone Mountain, Georgia, July 19, 2016. The permanent tennis facility built in a corner of Stone Mountain Park quickly became a money-loser and now sits idle, weeds growing through the outer courts and the scoreboard in disrepair.

Facilities from Sarajevo, Athens, and Beijing are all empty, and the photographs are mind-blowing.

The Rio Olympics is the 28th Summer Olympic games. The first one took place in Athens in 1896 and since then the games have been held in 19 different countries. But do you ever stop and wonder just what happened to all of those huge venues purposely built to host the world's most famous games?

Facilities from Sarajevo, Athens, and Beijing are all empty, and the photographs are mind-blowing.

The Rio Olympics is the 28th Summer Olympic games. The first one took place in Athens in 1896 and since then the games have been held in 19 different countries. But do you ever stop and wonder just what happened to all of those huge venues purposely built to host the world's most famous games?

Facilities from Sarajevo, Athens, and Beijing are all empty, and the photographs are mind-blowing.

Facilities from Sarajevo, Athens, and Beijing are all empty, and the photographs are mind-blowing.

Four decades after the 1984 Winter Olympics, Sarajevo is contending with what to do with its Olympic venues. Many are abandoned and crumbling.

These stadiums and ski jumps of years past have been abandoned, torn down, and bombed out.

Holy sh*t.

A decade after Greece hosted the world’s greatest sporting extravaganza, many of its once-gleaming Olympic venues now lie abandoned

It would appear that as quick as olympic venues are put up these days, they fall even faster. Here are 30 images of abandoned olympic ... Continue Reading »

The Rio Olympics is the 28th Summer Olympic games. The first one took place in Athens in 1896 and since then the games have been held in 19 different countries. But do you ever stop and wonder just what happened to all of those huge venues purposely built to host the world's most famous games?