OLYMPICS LEGACY HAS MIXED RECORD IN ATHENS
June 1st, 2011
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES
SEVEN years after the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, a few of the city's Olympic venues are used and generate income, but most remain unused and with only basic maintenance. The original plan to let the venues for long term investment, raising income to finance the public operation of the rest foundered through Byzantine bureaucracy and poor central planning.
"The legal procedure and steps to turn a sports venue to commercial use was not entirely clear," Avgi Markopoulou, president of the Hellenic Tourist Properties, the state-owned ...
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