What abandoned Olympic venues from around the world look like today

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Hosting the Olympics can be an economic burden on a country, especially if the host nation has to build venues for the games.

Throughout Olympic history, we've seen that once the games are over, these venues often become abandoned, crumbling as they go unused.

Already, the venues from Rio 2016 are falling apart, and they're not the only ones. Former host cities like Saravejo, Athens, and Beijing have had venues suffer the same fate.

Pyeongchang will avoid such a fate, as they plan to demolish their Olympic stadium when the games are over.

Take a look at some photos below.

Sam Belden and Emmett Knowlton contributed to this report.

In 2016, Rio de Janeiro hosted the first Olympic Games in Latin America in nearly 40 years.

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The city has yet to clear away much of the debris created by the Games. Here's what's left of the Rio Media Center, demolished in September.

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The site has become a health hazard. It is located in downtown Rio, close to public facilities like city hall, a convention center and a day care.

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