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====The olympics are going to be held in Sochi next year. They had won the bid to host the Olympics and the said it would take $2 billion to create everything. They had run out of money to build everything and now they are getting money from wealthy people who want to make an investment.==== ==== So far to this point they have spent $50 billion and that is 25 times the amount that it cost to hold the Olympics in Vancouver for the last winter olympics. It is also larger then Beijing, and three times larger then the London Olympics were.==== ====They have gone so far over there budget because in Sochi they had nothing they needed for an Olympic to be even thought of being held in the place. The builders have needed to fix the airport and make it bigger, ski lodges, new highways and railways to get people for the skating events to the skiing and snowboarding events with ease, and a new hotel so the athletes can stay in during the events.====

====Sochi is apparently storing snow for the next year to so that they can make sure they have enough snow unlike the last Olympics where they had to fly snow in so they could compete and do everything fairly.==== ====The scientist are trying to come up with new ways to make snow better one way is making a chemical so that way it bonds better and the other way is to make powder out of ice so that way they can make as much snow as needed so they wont run out. They are saying that they will have reliable snow cover up to plus 15 degrees.====

Maddie: I thought that the olympics were being help held in Brazil not Russia. The details are very helpful to to understand how much work it takes to get ready for the olympics.

Kristine Martin: Is there a reason that the Olympics have to be held in Russia? It seems kind of pointless when they have to spend extra money just to have things they need. Why not go to a different location and save money?

Taylor Taglieri - I think it is interesting how much money they have spent compared to previous Olympics. I don't understand why they would want to have the Olympics there if they don't have anything they need.

Mac Evarts- Do you think the investment will be worth it in the end?

Christopher Cuascut- That is a lot of money to prepare for the event. I bet Sochi will draw in more people after all the fixes.

Darren Wise- $50 billions? Wow! I'm surprised they are even having the Olympics in Sochi with the cost that high.

Paige Wales --- I think you did a good job in writing this blog. It is also really interesting how the builders had to fix the airports to make it bigger to get all of the people in the city. And it is also interesting how the scientist's had to come up with a new way to make the snow better.


 * __Dave Carmichae____l__** This looks great. This shows the problems that Sochi has and how they solved them. I would just look over the blog for Grammar and other mistakes, I think having the Olympics there will help out the country maybe more people would come to visit since they had it.

Eden White: You did a really good job at showing just how much goes into preparing to host the Olympics. You had many good examples of all the problems and how they were fixed. Overall a pretty good blog

Brooke Peters ~ This is an interesting blog because it describes all the money and preparation that goes into holding the Olympics. The problems, solutions, and the idea to make snow better are also interesting to think about.

//**__Trevor__**// **__Byrne:__** I never knew how much money was needed to hold the Olympics. This is very interesting. Its hard to imagine that builders need to make the airports bigger. I don't think it should cost so much money to do, and in my opinion they are putting a little more work into this than is necessary.

Hannah Brenner- This is very interesting. It's crazy that they spend billions of dollars creating and preparing for the Olympics. I never knew that they spent that much.

Sabrina Kurtz: Austin, I like the topic you chose because it is so relevant. It's crazy knowing that countries spend billions of dollars on the Olympics. Even training for individuals going into the Olympics is so expensive! Its more mind blowing to think that America is 16 trillion dollars in debt, yet we still seem to have all this money for professional sporting events. Even crazier, it's all just for unnecessary, pointless human entertainment.