Costliest Olympics

are there nazi gangs in Russia?

ETA:
never-mind, that's Greece in the pic and they have Golden Dawn, which is close.

To be fair, the russian economy isn't exactly the greek economy.

What's the over/under on Chechen terror attacks?

There's an economist somewhere (I know, not very descriptive) who has done some research on the public spending for the olympics, and he concludes that countries/cities don't make their money back on these huge projects.

He did point out some good developments that have come from Olympic games (downtown Atlanta, Athens' renovated subway system, etc.) but, largely, a shitload of money is poured into building these stadiums and shite that are never used. He used London and Beijing as his primary examples.