What a fiasco. The Olympic Games shoud have NEVER been awarded to this city.

[BooScout]

12. Mostly Atlanta just pissed off the IOC...

Since under corporate sponsorship, they were in direct competion with the IOC. Samarach was a meglomaniac and the IOC was then and now crooked as hell.

The transportation was fine. I was there. There was no traffic on Atlanta roads for two weeks. Shuttle buses or trains ran to all the venues with easy access. The only time I sat in any traffic was when we traveled to Athens, GA via private car for the Gold Medal Soccer game and we still made it to the game with time to spare.

Atlanta came out of the Olympic games not saddled with decades of debt. Nor was the so-called commercialism as insidious as the press made it out to be. Montreal took 30 years to pay off their Olympic debt. Atlanta broke even, and got two sports stadiums, new dormitories for Georgia Tech, a new park in the city centre and a big expansion of it's existing subway system.

There is press criticism of every Olympics. It seems the press has nothing better to do than to run down the host cities. I watched them do it to London four years ago and yet again this year with Rio. It really stung when they did it to Atlanta since that is my home town...but when they started it up for London four years ago, I was able to assure my British friends and neighbors here in the UK that it was just bullshit from the press who knows that negativity sells.

My advice for those lucky enough to attend an Olympics is to ignore the naysayers and enjoy yourselves. Being at an Olympics live and in person is a once in a life time event. Enjoy the hell out of it and go with the flow.