Many Olympic cities, towns and regions are left with empty competition sites that are often torn down.
Each future Olympic city is seeking corporate support.
It has been a bittersweet week for Australia's other Olympic city.
The Lillehammer committee is also trying to get mayors of different Olympic cities together for a worldwide effort to help the youngsters.
Me, I'm looking forward to spending large chunks of next summer in an Olympic city.
Almost every Olympic city at some point finds itself anxiously pondering whether it is going to get everything done on time.
I'm deeply saddened that this should happen at the heart of an Olympic city.
Joan Guetschow's last visit to this Olympic city did not end happily.
He should have blamed the horrendous transportation problems choking this Olympic city.
Manchester - not an olympic city.