Bingowings said:

I wish the various countries that compete would donate some cash to build a permanent Olympic site in Greece and stop this awful vanity project building malarky.

Yeah, I've felt this way since I was a kid. Especially after visiting Greece. Absolutely beautiful.

The modern games could be scheduled during the winter months that are most enjoyable (possibly to coincide with the Winter Olympic games at a mountain location.) The ice rink events could be held in Greece.

They could arrange with the cruise companies to have their ships present every four years, providing tens of thousands of additional rooms.

With each country contributing, they could build an internaional university campus near the site and easily evict the students and their spare furnishings every four years.

They could build a military base close by also for basic training and other units that could relocate or suspend operations every Olympics, making the base housing available. The military could make Olympic security part of it's basic training.

But hey, it's not like there's any need to prop up the Greek economy ;)