Host cites spend years of resources and billions of dollars to create state-of-the-art facilities for the Olympics. But after the Closing Ceremony, often those venues are left abandoned to decay. Nearly a quarter of a century later, Sydney Olympic Park continues to host major events, but other cities didn’t utilise their facilities as effectively post-Games. BERLIN 1936 Abandoned houses for athletes marked with their housing complex names stand at the site of the former Olympic Village in Elstal, Germany. Built for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the village later served as an infantry school for the Nazi-era Wehrmacht and a military...