[WilderPegasus]

Originally Posted by Itse

The LGBT issue is pretty much covering up for all the other reasons why Sochi should never have been given the olympics. It's a really long list, here's just a couple of things.

Russia is a winter country. It’s hard to find a place on the map of Russia where there hasn’t been snow and where winter sports are not developed. But Putin found such a spot and decided to hold the winter Olympics there. It’s the city of Sochi.

At a cost of $50 billion, the Sochi Olympics will be the most expensive Olympic Games, summer or winter, ever held. While Olympic costs typically have overruns below 200 percent, Sochi’s costs are now 500 percent more than originally forecast, according to one estimate. Workers are making less than $500 a week working on construction projects, and according to Human Rights Watch, they often aren’t paid on time. Most don’t receive safety training or health insurance. And according to activists in Russia, the construction projects are rife with corruption.

Sounds like Sochi is ripping off the climate of the Vancouver Games and the management of the Montreal Games.