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The Sochi Olympics: Castles in the Sand

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The Sochi Olympics: Castles in the Sand

“Castles in the Sand” is an article written by The Economist, a British publication. This article, published on July 13, 2013, argues that in many ways Sochi is an odd choice for the winter games and there is a lot of corruption. The Sochi Olympics is a gigantic construction site where 70,000 workers from every corner of the old Soviet Union dig, lift, pull and churn day and night. I would like to talk about few points about this article, my first point is location, second corruption, and lastly cost. Sochi Olympics was a bad choice of location, I agree with The Economist view, the International Olympic Committee should bring people to another safer place.

According to The Economist Sochi an odd choice for the winter games. The place, for the Sochi Olympics game is close to the black sea this is an environment contaminated, this environment can sicken to the people. “Sochi is also worrying”, because to the north Caucasus, a predominantly Muslim part of Russia, had a civil conflict for two decades ago. Sochi is becoming the capital of the Caucasus, former Turkic poorest province, Olympics game should be removed to other place, north Caucasus does not include a nationwide security operation to protect the venue against attack, also the Sochi game need more security, to protect the life of people. The government should be security operation to protect to the place, also everybody who attend to Olympics Game.

In addition, In Russia corruption indeed is not a side-effect, here The Economist is right it is a product almost as important as the sporting event itself. Corruption is the key threat to Russia, for this reason the Sochi Olympics Game should be move to other place with more benefits, and less corruption. If Sochi Olympics Game not is moved to other place, could be have consequences like

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