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Give the Olympics a Permanent Home
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As athletes converge on Sochi for the most expensive Olympics ever, an old idea is due for revival: Find the games a permanent home.
Russia has spent about $50 billion to build a ski resort from scratch in Sochi: not just trails and snow-making machines, but also roads, rail links, hotels, even a power plant. It’s a remarkable achievement, not least because the Winter Games are less than a third the size of the Summer Games, and London spent only about $14.5 billion in 2012.