Green Olympics

I have a fine view of the Olympic stadium from my flat. The towering iron work of the main stadium is going up and the concrete being poured as we speak. It will certainly be impressive and bring a big boost to the area in terms of regeneration of a run down area.

But is this really the right thing to be doing. Given the debate about carbon footprints and the destruction of the planet is changing the hosting of the Olympics every four years a good idea. Why don't we all pitch in for 2017 and build a massive stadium and all surrounding paraphernalia back in Greece (where it originated) and then every year from then on reuse. I am sure that there will be arguments about financial benefit but think of it this way. Once the infrastructure is built then it only takes money to maintain and that could come from contributions every four years. Given the billions and billions of savings that would be made that money could be put towards simply upgrading infrastructure in a host company. How would that work.

Every 4 years a country is picked to be the host of the Olympics. They pick a site in their country where they would have built the stadium and then spend, say 1 billion, regenerating that area. They then move all their people to the Olympics who host the games at the Greek stadium and facilities under their badge.

It has to been greener and far less wasteful than what we do today. The Greeks may do well out of this but they would also pay for all the maintenance etc in between while the host country 'hires' the facilities for the games they are the hosts of.

It must be greener.