Should host countries have to spend so much money on building the Olympic venues?

 LI: To use provocation to understand both sides of a story.

Our focus this week for reading was based on the Olympics & provocation. We used provocation to understand both side of the question asked. The question was should host countries spend so much money on building the Olympic venues? Our opinion was that host countries should not spend a massive amount of money on the olympics, since the former buildings used to host the olympics. We think that the billions of dollars used to entertain others with sport, should be used to help other countries who are facing difficult times(poverty, homelessness, lack of education etc). To get a better understanding of this topic, we were reqiured to research and find images of before and after olympic venues.In our groups, we were very shocked to find out that most of these venues were abandoned, outgrown and untouched. We found this task interesting because seeing both side of the story meant different people see the story with different opinion.