Source: Jane Chung, Thomson Reuters , February 25, 2018
Host nation must decide how to avoid turning surplus venues into white elephants
Olympic officials have showered praise on South Korea’s Winter Games organisers for staging a successful event against the odds, but they have also left it with a warning: don’t leave any white elephants behind.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) delivered the message at its final meeting before the Olympic cauldron was extinguished on Sunday, in a reminder of one of the biggest criticisms of the Olympic movement: monumental waste.
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