A review by mdfn
Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup by Andrew Zimbalist

2.0

Well, this was my husband's pick. There were a lot more numbers than I normally like to see in my reading, but it was so interesting and mind boggling. The amount of money wasted on the Olympics and the World Cup is astronomical - billions of dollars! Imagine if all that money was funneled into education or into building infrastructure...