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Why do cities no longer want to host the Olympic Games? The case of the 2022 and 2024 Olympics
[Pourquoi les villes ne veulent-elles plus accueillir les Jeux Olympiques ? Le cas des JO 2022 et 2024]

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  • Nathalie Fabry

    (DICEN-IDF - Dispositifs d'Information et de Communication à l'Ère du Numérique - Paris Île-de-France - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)

  • Sylvain Zeghni

    (LVMT - Laboratoire Ville, Mobilité, Transport - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - Université Gustave Eiffel)

Abstract

The renunciation of cities to bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games (Oslo, Innsbruck, St. Moritz, Sion) or the 2024 Summer Games (Boston, Budapest, Hamburg, Rome, Munich), for financial reasons but also because of protests and/or local referendums, resulted in a limited choice for the International Olympic Committee. The fear of local stakeholders (politicians, inhabitants) of an increase in costs and the doubts about the interest of hosting a mega-event are the main reasons for the withdrawal. Why don't the Olympic boosters work, and why do general statements about the impact of the Olympics no longer make sense to residents? First of all, we will study the impacts on a host location (employment, sales, tourism, attractiveness...) of mega-events. In order to understand the "city and mega-event" link, and to avoid a simple balancing act, we will reason in terms of the Olympic ecosystem. In a second point, we will analyze eight cities that have withdrawn their candidacy, and we will examine their motivations for doing so by focusing on three cases that seem emblematic to us: Oslo, Hamburg, and Budapest.

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  • Nathalie Fabry & Sylvain Zeghni, 2020. "Why do cities no longer want to host the Olympic Games? The case of the 2022 and 2024 Olympics [Pourquoi les villes ne veulent-elles plus accueillir les Jeux Olympiques ? Le cas des JO 2022 et 2024," Post-Print hal-02543347, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02543347
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