With the current debate in Brazil about how much hosting the Olympics helps the local economy despite the enormous construction costs, we thought we would look at how another country has utilized their Olympic structures. China hosted the summer games in Beijing in 2008. Surely they put all those fields and stadiums to good use, right? Well, if the plan was to create the biggest permanent set for a post-apocalyptic movie, then they were right on target! Someone call Kurt Russell, we’re going to need him to dust off his Snake Plissken eyepatch for Escape From Beijing.
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