Argument 1 (finances)
All the way back in 1896, the Olympic Games began its first competition between athletes in Athens, Greece. Athens is the best location for the Olympic Games to be held continuously due to several factors including the historical background, renovated facilities, and cost budgets. According to an article made by Nate Berg, a freelance reporter through CityLab, the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games had a price tag of about $1.6 billion. This heavy amount of money had taken …show more content…
Well before that, though, the Games were held at one specific place for 800 years. That place was Olympia, Greece. According to John Rennie Short, a professor at the University of Maryland who researches the Olympic Summer Games profusely, said the only reason why the games have been held at different locations every four years is because of how the modern day Olympics were formed to gain support from around the world. If the Olympic Games wanted to follow its historical roots, it could move the events back to Greece and keep the same original format of one city hosting it