Focus on having good venues for the competition (that doesn't necessarily mean you have to build new ones) that's what it's about.
Expectations are way too high and their utilization after the events is just crapshoot. Maybe we should just go all digital. Do it in VR or 3D or something...
Second thing is infra in general that must be build to support these stations, that is often also enormously costly and will not be fully utilized afterwards.
And then there was a concurrent runway show to distract from the athletes, which was more of the same featureless body positive chaff they've been bombarding us with for the last decade. It just looked like an American commercial.
When are we going to hand the keys to North Korea and let them show us how it's done?
On television perhaps. For anyone that was actually there…
* https://blog.jeffcable.com/2024/07/the-opening-ceremony-of-p...