It's bizarre what a sports event can do to a city. You'd never have thought that the arrival of hundreds of athletes would cause the government to shut down entire factories, ban people from using their cars on every other day and cause a construction boom to plonk donut-shaped mammoth buildings onto the cityscape.
Athletes are worried about pollution, causing the government to sprinkle clouds with weird-ass chemicals. A rectagular building layered with gigantic bubble wrap is only one of many avant-garde architectural monuments that have been built to impress the incoming sportsmen, -women and spectators. People sell live goldfish in plastic key chains.
It's weird what one event - one where thousands will see seemingly senseless and purely entertaining physical activities - can do to a city.
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