China's Olympic legacy remains idle

London is about to start the one-year countdown to next year's summer Olympic Games.
 
But in China, which hosted the event in 2008, many of its multi-million dollar facilities sit idle, despite government assurances that they would be put to good use.

Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports from Biejing.

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[ervin920]

haha it may be expensive, but its national pride. so true. i hope london doesn't go to cheap.

[Vopahsolog]

Numa numa!?

[basslightning1]

@Nyro888 not trying to look down on them bro,, just sayin they put on one heck of a show, and spent a lot of money doing it,, I wish them well, if their economy does well, so will everyone else's.. hope they come up with ways to use their massive buildings,,, peace

[Nyro888]

@basslightning1 (cont).

Also even tho.ugh there are still a lot of poor people in China, things have dramatically improved for many Chinese over the last few decades, and the number of Chinese millionares are increasing every year. So stop looking down on Chinese people, after all the olympic committee would have never given China the olympics, if they didn't have the cash.

[Nyro888]

@basslightning1,

While I do partially agree with your sentiment, I still think you are missing the point of what the olympics is all about. Like all major sporting events, the olympics gives the host nation the chance to promote itself on the international stage. It's like a tourism video, no country would put their faults on a self-promotion video would they? (cont).

[AnjuABCDE]

They can still make money, there are 1.3 billion potential visitors, trust me every chinese wants to visit it. Plus foreign visitor would want to visit too. so if you do the math, theres still 10 billion US dollars to be made just by people visiting it.

[VictimOfBoredom]

@stealthpakfa When did this video ever say otherwise? Idiot.

[stealthpakfa]

more western propaganda by western media. yes aljazeera is puppet western media.

china won the 2008 olympics with 51 golds.

so china wins!

[basslightning1]

they spent massive amounts of money while much of their population lives in poverty not so much for the olympics as much as it was to say to the world " here we are , look at us " it's all about those in charge showing off

[lovetohate028]

@Liberalsuck100 almost perfect

[ervin920]

i want to go to that water world!