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>> people treating it as something special. Same for FIFA

Formula 1 racing had a similar "fraud" scheme where a lot of countries invested in racing circuits which were left unused then[1]. I remember the politics, media manipulating people into believing they earn billions of dollars in PR for their government investing in circuit construction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_circuits



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