Sports and $$$

For those classes where we did sports a few weeks ago, here is an article that came out yesterday about the wastage associated with sport. Pertaining to the proponents' view that hosting sport can improve/upgrade the infrastructure of the hosting country, this may be true only for transport system, but not so for those over-the-top facilities like stadiums, etc, which usually give only momentary bragging rights, after which they languish as 'white elephants', expensive to upkeep, wasting resources.....

Qns: Hosting major sporting events creates more problems than benefits. Do you agree? (Cambridge 2006).

Does sport merit the vast sums of money that are spent on it? (Cambridge 2010)