A special place recently in the papers the cost of the Olympic Games takes security: only the additional costs of 2012 in London in this part will be approximately $ 500 million. And this is not an isolated example, the tense situation in the world makes its own orders: in 1998 in Nagano, almost six thousands of police guarded the order in Sydney, two years later engaged in the protection of over 25 thousand people. Safety Games in Salt Lake City cost $ 400 million in public order and security while involved not only the army and security services, but also forest rangers. Steady increase in expenditure items of the Olympic budget has meant that many of the Olympic Games bring some tangible financial costs. As Typically, in the example lead the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976, when instead of the planned $ 310 million in costs as a result spent $ 1.2 billion.
and the Olympic Games in Greece in 2004, when the Minister of Finance of Greece Alogoskufis said 'If decision about applying for (the Games) was taken today, I think we would not have been so excited. " Lack of data on the Moscow Olympics in 1980 does not allow us to judge its profitability or losses, but still suspect that the financial result and these Olympic Games was negative. Accurate estimate of the cost of the Games to install complicated and different data are obtained different results, but with the appropriate error can be assumed that the cost of the Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998 amounted to 0.932 billion U.S.