双语阅读英语外刊精讲：奥运会(附音频)

2018-10-22 10:47:56来源：酷学英语

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　　Sporting mega-events

　　Gamesmanship

　　The business model for the Olympic Games is running out of puff

　　PIERRE DE COUBERTIN, the French aristocrat who founded the modern Olympics, was seduced by the world's fair. In 1990, 1904 and 1908 his games were embedded within such exhibitions. He soured on the arrangement eventually because the games were overshadowed, “reduced to the role of humiliated vassal”, as he put it. The Olympics still criss-crosses the globe, but with city after city ditching ambitions to put on the world's largest sporting event, the model is under threat.

　　The latest blow comes courtesy of Budapest, which on March 1st withdrew its bid to host the 2024 summer games after public opposition. Its retreat comes on the heels of Boston, Rome and Hamburg canning their bids within the past two years, whittling a once-crowded pool of candidate cities down to only two: Los Angeles - itself a replacement for the torpedoed Boston bid - and Paris.

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