Poor nations of the world send tons of athletes you've never heard of, and some nations carve out a niche and do really well. Of course, money will always be a

Poor nations of the world send tons of athletes you've never heard of, and some nations carve out a niche and do really well. Of course, money will always be a factor but it's not 'class within a nation' that's the issue, it's really nation v. nation. Also, the current version of the Olympics was a little bit of a club for the elite have friendly competitions among gentleman of the elite, i.e. amateurs, not some 'pursuit of the absolute best'. Instead of having the Olympics in 'one spot' they could simply tone it down and use existing hotels and facilities. No reason that instead of Toronto you have 'Southern Ontario' for example. And keep the same sports co-located so that athletes don't have to be on transport 5 hours a day. The requirements for size of opening ceremonies are rubbish as well. You can use a mid-size stadium and that's that. Finally, recognize that the Olympics are a huge graft opportunity for countries to pilfer tax dollars. They can build '$500M stadiums' that only cost '$100M' where $350M is a kickback to Putin, $50M goes into developer pockets ... the stadium may nor may not get finished ...