Olympic Legacy: At What Cost? 奥运后的希腊

National pride, budding sports stars and fantastic facilities -we hear about the 'legacy' the Olympic Games will leave behind in London -but at what cost? Athens hosted the 2004 games, but the 'legacy' has left people angry. Sky's Greg Milam reports.

Four years on this is the Olympic legacy in Athens. Millions of pounds were spent on venues like the Beach Volleyball Center. Like many now, it's empty, locked up and its future uncertain.

Graffiti covers the outside of the gymnastics arena, what should have been a huge public park looks like this. And a venue built specially for taekwondo is deserted, nothing more than a backdrop for the local fishermen. And the Greek authorities would rather you didn't see it.
"No.No.NO."
And it is not just the security guards. No one from the Greek government or from the company that now runs these sites or even from the ruling party here in Greece wanted to speak to us on camera. And maybe it's not surprising because 10 of the 20 venues from 2004 are not used at all for anything. And many of the others like the main Olympic Stadium here are only used every now and then. This is the Olympic legacy here in Athens.

Try to visit the state-of-the-art Sailing Center and a fence blocks the way. The Greek people who paid for this can't see what they got for their money.

A man down there didn't want to appear on camera, but he said that what's happening to the facility like that one there was a terrible waste. He said it was wrong that the Greek public had paid for facilities like that but weren’t allowed to use them. In fact, he said he felt ashamed to be Greek.

Staphos Calliopsis was in the Olympic Kayak Squad in 2004. He, like most Greeks, is proud of the way the country staged the Games, but they worry about the long-term cost.

The cost was huge, I mean, like a billion Euro per day and Greece is a small country, already had the financing problem with, you know, the health system, with the educational system, as all know, even I think what’s worse was all this money spent.

Officially all these cost Greece 8 billion pounds, unofficially the bill might eventually reach 15 billion. The district of Hellenico is home to what was some of these showpiece venues. The neglect here angers Hellenico’s mayor.

Money, he says, seems more important than using venues for the public good.

The cost was very big and the result was not what it should have been. The venues have not been given to the local communities with very few exceptions.

The government agency that runs these venues is confident that it will eventually find people who want them. Politicians say that highlights a failure of planning.

I don't think that the Greek people mind the bill, perhaps what they mind is that after the Olympics we did not use the Olympics as a springboard for the country. And the quarrel leads of the question "Was it worth it" is could we have done more to explore the Olympics afterwards and the answer is absolutely yes, we could have, in terms of using the facilities more, in terms of using the feeling that is great for a country.

Everywhere people will remember 2004 this man told me, nowhere did it happen as it happened in Greece. National pride and some positives, the Athens transport network is now the envy of many countries. The Olympic Village, once temporary home to thousands of athletes is now short-term accommodation for the city's under-privileged. The country that gave the world the modern Olympics didn't get it all right in 2004. There is still time for London to learn the lessons.

Greg Milam Sky News, Athens.

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民族自豪感，涌现的体育明星，出色的设备——我们听说了奥运会将会留给伦敦的遗产——但是成本呢？雅典举办了2004年奥运会，但是这些“遗产”将人们激怒了。Sky节目的Greg Milam报道。

雅典奥运会过去已经死年龄。体育竞技场花费了数百万英镑，比如沙滩排球中心。像其他奥运体育设施一应，现在它空空如也，大门深锁，前途未卜。

体操竞技场的外面满是涂鸦，就好象一个巨大的公园。特意为跆拳道建立的体育场被遗弃了，仅仅是当地渔民的巨大的背景。希腊当权者宁肯你没有看到。

“不，不。”

不仅仅是保卫人员，无论是希腊政府，还是现在运营这些竞技场的公司，还是希腊的统治党都没人想接受我们的采访。这或许并不出奇，因为2004年以来，20个体育场中有10个没有加以任何的利用。其他的像主要的奥运体育馆也只是偶尔利用一下。这就是雅典奥运会留下的遗产。

看看最新式的帆船中心，栅栏挡住了去路。希腊人民为此付了钱，却什么都看不到。

从那里经过的一个人不想在镜头中露面，但是他说那些设备简直是可怕的浪费。他说，希腊人民为这些设施付钱却不允许人民利用，这种做法是错误的。事实上，他说作为一名希腊人他感觉到耻辱。

Staphos Calliopsis 是2004年奥运会皮船队的队员，他说为雅典举办奥运会的方式感到自豪，但是也担心长期的成本。

我的意思是，成本非常巨大，大概一天10亿欧元。希腊是一个小国家，现在卫生系统，教育系统已经面临这严重的财政问题。我认为更糟糕的是白白的花了这么多钱。

根据官方宣布，希腊花费了80已英镑，但是实际上可能高达150亿。这些仅供展览的竞技场坐落在Hellenico区。这引发了Hellenico市长的愤怒。

他说，钱看上去比让公众利用这些竞技场更加重要。

成本非常高，而结果不应该是现在这样。这些竞技场毫无例外的，没有向当地社区开放。

政府雇佣的经营这些竞技场的代理机构确信最终他们会找到想要这些场所的人。政治家说这强调了计划的失败。

我认为希腊人民不在乎花费这么高的成本，或许他们介意的是奥运过后，希腊没有将奥运作为跳板。问题“是不是值得”的焦点是我们是不是应该更多的开发奥运，答案毫无疑问是肯定的。我们应该做更多，应该更好地利用这些设施。

世界各地的人们都会记得2004雅典奥运会，没有任何一个地方的奥运会像希腊这样。民族自豪感，还有一些积极的方面，雅典的交通网络引起许多国家羡慕。曾经是数千名运动员的居住场所的奥运村，现在成了这个城市没有特权的人都短暂居住地。这个举办世界现代奥运的国家2004做的并不完美。伦敦需要吸取这些教训。