Why Egypt Built an Olympic City Without the Olympics
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Egypt is building a huge Olympic City in the desert, hoping to be the first African Olympic Host.
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Egypt was known for “How did they build that?” to “Why did they build that?”
I cant believe they built all these facilities without even bidding for the Olympics :)
Financial back handers. Thats why.
All this infrastructure and not a single train or metro station in it. Ridiculous.
The Olympic City features a monorail station and a suburban train system. Additionally, it is complemented by a Siemens-supplied and operated high-speed rail network spanning 2,000 kilometers, with a total cost exceeding 20 billion Euros. Recently, the German Federal President visited the station in the new capital.
There is a train
ruclips.net/video/zPnBjRE5EOQ/видео.htmlsi=7tHi9eHynRsSi0S3
It will end up abandon like the one in Rio. When you build stuff for Olympics you should do it like in Japan where all of this infrastructure is used afterwards
rewatch 19sek of the vid
But I agree, should be mixed with order incoming infrastructure
Or London.
Repurpose for regular sports. I think Egypt is thinking of being a regional country for Africa and the Middle East.
So smart.
It should at least be mentioned that Egypt will host the 2027 African Games on this location.
Yeah they definitely should have mentioned that. Thks for providing the info.
Ok, big deal, but what is preventing them from bidding for the Olympics?
Wow - as someone who has visited I'm staggered anyone in Egypt could think this is a sensible idea - The country is falling apart!!! Find whoever has brought these plans into action and immediately jail them.
President Sisi should be the first one put in jail.
Egypt's new capital is also a waste of resources
It's because Egypt is illegally ruled by the military junta since 2013
"anyone in Egypt" well, really only a single person needs to think this is a good idea: the president. And he doesn't care what the rest of the country thinks or wants, just his own fame and glory counts
Probably financed by loans from China that will be almost impossible to pay off. That would give China economic and political leverage in Egypt
@@Da... Truthfully, except for the brief period between 2012-2013, Egypt has been ruled by a military junta since the toppling of the Egyptian monarchy since 1952.
Waste of taxpayers money 💰
It worst it is funded by debt
Lol. It's all IMF and gulf debt
Money lundering?
@@MohammedR-fk2juImf: Infinite Money Factory
@@googleslave funded by inflation
It will make fantastic abandoned places in the future
Facts
The proper people already booking their flights😂
disgusting sportswashing by a state more interested in vanity-projects than caring for their citizens.
i am egyptian and there is no more accurate comment describing the situation here
It feels like another Pharaoh is trying to make his mark! 😅
That place needs a monorail, trust me.
that;s funny 🤣
They borrowed $50B. Someone in the government pocketed $25-$30B and spent the rest on this, knowing full well they won’t get to host them. And if they do, by the time Olympics rolls around, everything will need to be rebuilt and restored. This is money syphoning at its finest.
It will never get finished
Surely, to win a bid for Egypt, the international brands and visitors will want to see the Egyptian monuments…. I can’t imagine if Paris would have won if they didn’t use the Eiffel Tower etc. Everyone would love to see beach volleyball in front of the sphinx ..
Egypt has been hosting squash events for more than 30 years in front of the Pyramids.
@@Marwan-tx5nb nice
@@Marwan-tx5nb people will get to see Giza yeah, but everything else is a 5 hour bus ride an a 2 hour camel ride
@@TreeGod.lmao
Nonsense - sports people want to see sports and not see tourist attractions
Considering the amount of corruption there, athletes would pay their way out of doping tests for $5
They won't able to maintain it.
- Boating, swimming on the Nile past Abu Simbel
- Tennis on the Giza Plateau
- Beach Vollyball in front of the Sphinx
- Polo in the Valley of the kings
- Table Tennis and Judo at Karnak.
….. this is what people want… not boring new buildings
There are some BANGER BAND NAMES IN HERE 😂
Yeah like in Paris
Check the video of the event called 'The Pharaohs' Royal Parade' it was designed as a rehearsal of what could be done in an Olympic Opening
No public transport (rail, tram network)? Honestly it reminds me of playing SimCity on Super Nintendo, just plonk down a few stadiums in one spot.
There is rail systems being built
Mmmm…. But can they fund it though…
I hope this is sarcasm lol
Cause funding thru external debt isn't a case of (can) but (should).
@@vinny7114 I think thats what they're getting at
In a poverty stricken country how do they ever expect to make any money off this?
The construction cost £50bn.
The leaders will be £20bn richer in a few years.
Sorted.
Im from a country where the top 1% of the citizens is equal to around 14 million thats insane right? Even Egypt’s top 1% is equal to 1-2 million people. When you have an upper class with population larger than the population of entire countries the government can easily make profit out of such projects even if the overall population is poor
Egypt suddenly found somewhere a money bag? Last time I looked the state was broke...
Well, they borrowed a big bag full of money. Which they can't ever pay the interest on, but who cares, as long as it makes Sisi immortal in a lot of grand building projects before it all falls apart.
Even if they win, it will be a massive financial lost. A new record for the Olympics 😢
I had no idea that we were bidding for the Olympics here in Denmark, but it sounds fun!
Where are they getting the water for all this concrete?
They're in the middle of a desert for crying out loud!
😂
Egypt has a huge and regular supply of water thanks to the Nile River. After the construction of the High Dam in southern Egypt, Egypt was able to store huge quantities of water, cultivate millions of acres in the desert, and meet the demand of cities and the industrial sector.
@@dreamer74690 Isn't the river and dammed water both threatened with evaporation and high water demand already?
@@colinstuno.
The IOC is so famously protective of its marks -- how is Egypt getting away with calling this the New "Olympic” City and having the interlocking rings logo everywhere?
the same way they are building a new glitzy city protected by the military in a poor country: they don't give a damn XD
I feel bad for Egypt watching this. This huge massive expensive edifice built in the middle of nowhere, meanwhile most of the country's population is suffering, underhoused / crammed. I can't take this positive spin at all. These buildings will be ruins in a decade. I can only hope leadership somehow changes and priority is put back on the people...
You've heard of a spec house...but have you heard about a spec city??!
only dictators are willing to splurge that much.
Brilliant video! Very well put together 😀
Brilliant comment! Very much made by a human!
I think it would be good to have the olympics in Africa but id be pissed if it went to a countey depending on the IMF to keep the economy running, there are better things to spend that money on
In 2022, Egypt was ranked seventh among the most obese countries with 21,670,640 obese people.
So ?
They are building Olympic facilities but they haven't won any bids yet. We still have LA 2028 and Brisbane 2032. I am sure that IOC would rather choose Doha instead. An example of this is Baku, Azerbaijan. They are lucky though that European Games became a thing and they were able to host an event similar in the scale of Asian Games because of the venues they built.
I imagine "we've already built the facilities, come have a look" does make for a very convincing bid.
No risk that it won't be ready if its already built
@@HALLish-jl5moAnd again, Doha already has these facilities they've built for the Asian Games 2006 and Arab Games and then succeeded World Sports Championships and World Cup. If they are going to give the hosting right to a Desert country, they would give it to the rich country with a track record of holding these events and proper facilities with a grassroot sports program. Hosting the Olympics is not just about the venues, it is also about their ability to commit to accommodations for athletes and audiences. Of course they would rather give it to a European country again or in non-Desert climate instead but if the choice is between this unnamed capital in Egypt or Doha, Qatar? They would surely choose Qatar. Especially when Egypt doesn't have that good of a reputation when it comes to tourism.
a lot of rich people are making a lot of money off this
Make Chariot Racing Great Again
Good Luck ☘ to Egypt
We must remember that Egypt, like Greece is a nation of ancient ruins…. Now they will have newer ruins!
Let the Games Begin!
There's terrible poverty all across the region..so this sports stadium will help,just what the people need.
As a Brazilian, I am tired of seeing outdated misinformation about the state of Rio's Olympic Park. The pool in the famous photo no longer exists, because the arena was temporary and that was always the intention, as was the handball arena next door. So much so that they were dismantled and the structures were used to build schools in other cities. You know, Brazil is not just Rio.
It is true that there was a problem in the following years with the mismanagement of former mayor Marcelo Crivela, but the other arenas in the Olympic park are still being used, and the olympic park has hosted the last five editions of Rock in Rio. In fact, the organizers announced a permanent venue and the construction of an amusement park on the site.
So few cities around the world even bid to host the Olympics for so many reasons, but cost is definitely one of them! Super expensive endeavour for a city to take on!
Having open roof stadiums in the middle of the desert is crazy
Why? What do u think this is the first stadium im Egypt or desert climate nations lol?
I think you guys misspelled sustainability in context of the Olympics. It´s officially spelled G R E E N W A S H I N G.
I wish to see in a video like this more maps and plans, but still i enjoyed it
Why? Just why?
Bc it's awesome
@isaacgeorge7288 wow so awesome, exploiting everyone in your country for an egotistical plan that they will leave useless in about 30 years already. How awesome..... fools with ego problems
Egypt lacks enough sport facilities for it's 110 million population, so building such logistics doesn't necessarily mean its for Olympics!
yet again another great vid to start the week! thanks :)
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
"It's built in 3 dimensions" you know, like every other single building ever built lol
Egypt spending ungodly amounts of money in hopes that the IOC will notice... Straight up simpin 😆
i thought that the rules for hosting has changed now, and you are meant to use existing infrastructure or temporary venues?
Even a country with a strong sporting culture (brazil) struggled after hosting the Olympics, what more a country who's not that strong sporting culture
10:00, a country has never been transformed by the Olympics. Especially if they build stuff that's never going to be used again.
If all the money was invested in the the country instead they would be much better off.
The Egyptian people don't have food or bread..it's very poor country...why to spend billions in stand help the people...very strange 😢
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Insane. Egypt has 100 better ways that they could have spent $50 billion.
South Africa cannot generate all the electricity it needs which puts its modern stadiums in context. Egypt as the video points out is experiencing economic difficulties. Academic studies have shown that any of claims of economic benefits from extravagant projects such as the Olympics are grossly over stated.
I don’t think a single person making the capital is related to the ancient Egyptians
This will go for 56 billion and they haven't even landed an Olympics?
Egypt needs these new infrastructure.Old Cairo is the perfect example of bad urban planning.Egypt wants to be like Dubai but on a larger scale.
yeah but it seems like they are using taxpayer money for rich people rather than on its poorest citizens
There are chariot races still. They're called Chuckwagon Races, at the Calgary Stampede.
5:54 Doubt. it looks like all the other toilet seat stadiums as of late. I see nothing about the Nefertiti crown in it.
Suddenly, I want chariot racing to be an Olympic sport again.
Saying the Egyptians are good at building because of the Pyramids is like saying the Italians are good at building empires because of Rome. 😛
Good set for some kind of Mad Max post apocalyptic movie.
insanity
Oh I get it. “If you build it they will come.” 😂
Did I miss an announcement somewhere? Are we not getting anymore videos on Tomorrow's Build? The last video was 8 months ago.
Why can't they ever build something you actually want to be?
Forget to mention the DHL Cape Town stadium...
At least they don't have a pooped river in the desert ;).
This looks like exactly what the IOC has been trying to avoid since Rio: countries massively overspending their limited resources on unsustainable facilities that become embarrassing eyesores as soon as the games end. This being a disturbing ghost town even before winning a bid makes it even worse. I can't imagine they're going to want to encourage this kind of behavior
How much suffering did it take to put this vanity project together?
Here before they change the thumbnail 😂😂
It's a bold strategy Cotton. I feel like, since they were literally starting from scratch, a bit of public transit would have been a good plan and they could have removed a lot of those roads. Though that's still jumping way ahead of whether they will actually be using this huge site before or after the theoretical Olympics. I'd love to see it succeed, but it is incredibly ambitious.
The amount of comment wanting this project to fail is astounding!
Honestly great video about the infrastructure aspect of it, but the story itself is way way way more complex than that.
This is the dumbest thing I've seen in months.
Since we keep having trouble with commonwealth hosts maybe they might want to try all that fancy new stuff out and help us out?
If I hear again that international artists don't do concerts in Egypt because there are no facilities, I'm going to get angry.
This City in the desert is Awesome, a monumental achievement! Go Egypt!
"Summer" Olympics?!?!
Way too hot ......
Egypt is making the same mistake Rio and Athens made. Building every permanent to be permanent is a disaster in the making. There's a reason why every successful Olympic city utilizes temporary venues.
LA 2028, Brisbane 2032, Ahmedabad 2036, London 2040, Helsinki 2044, Cairo 2048. You heard it here first :)
Turkmenistan did this too
Ok, so did no one tell them no one wants the anymore, so the bid is noncompetitive? Also, the venues are going to be outdated when the hosting finally comes, there’s a reason everything get’s finished last minute normally, and it’s not just bad organisation.
Hey Sydney, nice stadium. Can I copy your homework
Someone is obviously getting a massive back-hander for building this without a cause so far.
building a whole olympic city +12 years ahead of the soonest olympic bid is fucken criminal and someone should be judged for it
Problem is: the IMF and World Bank cannot afford Egypt to go bankrupt and the Egyptians know it. So they can borrow money and be (almost) assured they get loans afterloans to keep it afloat. And ignore the IMF/World Bank's recommendations.
Pyramids predate Egypt by 5k years but whatever we get the hype
For all criticism we must make for the New Capital project, I honestly hope Egypt host the 2036 Olympics, would be such a waste of money if they not do it.
Besides, if we are all wrong and the new capital became a sucess, this Olympic park would greatly improve the sports development in Egypt.
6:08 glad they didn't try to build it in 2 dimensions
The ocean could be cleaned for that amount of money. This is completely ridiculous.
this is probably the place some alien would land
Very futuristic.. great progress Egypt
More like a waste of money and resources
@@njathifrancis Nah, it will be amazing
Very strange introduction, in the mind, there's North Africa, and Africa. The Sahara between the two, which is a bigger barrier than the Mediterranean Sea.
Someone really need to tell Egypt that Football fans hate sitting far from the action
Will there be public transport systems or bike lanes?
Bike lanes in desert sun?!?
the sun is a deadly lazer.
Phoenix and Tucson are in the desert
I hope this bites me un the backside in the future... but... what a colossal waste of time, money, energy and resources. The people of Egypt deserve better
Literally building in the desert. What could go wrong?