1. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous ABANDONED OLYMPIC VENUES It would appear that as quick as Olympic venues are put up these days, they fall even faster.

2. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics

3. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous Olympic VillageMain Amphitheater Diving Venue

4. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics “Bird’s Nest” Opening Ceremonies Venue BeforeAfter Located at the Olympic green, the stadium cost US428 million. The design was awarded to a submission from the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron in April 2003.

5. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous Beach Volleyball Stadium Rowing Canal

6. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous Beijing Baseball Stadium BMX Track Beijing Olympics officials approached the 2008 Games as an opportunity to host the world's biggest sporting event, not to create infrastructure of permanent importance. Now Beijing is left with a post-Olympics landscape that better suits the taste of ruin porn aficionados than urban development officials.

7. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous 1972 Munich Summer Olympics Train Station

8. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous Athens 2004 Summer Olympics Main Fountain Entrance Today the canoe/kayak slalom course of Athens's 2004 games looks a little like the inside of the ancient Roman Coliseum: a former home of sea battles that has become a dry ruin.

9. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous Volleyball ArenaDiving pool at the Aquatic Center OAKA Main Sports Hall

10. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous Multi-Million dollar softball complex In large part because of Greece's ongoing economic crisis, many of its 8-year-old Olympic sites are abandoned. Unruly grasses threaten to reclaim the 4800-seat softball stadium of the 2004 Olympics Field Hockey Stadium

11. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics Ski Jump Medal Podium

12. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous Mount Igman Ski Jump Top of Jump Judges stand

13. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous Overgrown Bobsled TrackGraffiti on bottom turn of the track Remains of the Olympic Village

14. © 2014 wheresjenny.com Abandoned Olympic venues for Miscellaneous Olympic Podium Riddled with bullet holes and missing two of its Olympic rings, the podium of the 1984 winter games was used as an execution site during the siege.