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Which city's 1976 Summer Olympics left it with $1.5 billion in debt that took three decades to pay off?
Answer
Montreal
Montreal's 1976 Olympics ran massively over budget, and the resulting $1.5 billion debt, funded partly by a special tobacco tax, wasn't fully repaid until 2006.
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Montreal's 1976 Olympics left the city with $1.5 billion in debt that took 30 years to repay, making taxpayers fund the games decades after they ended.
Other options people guess
- Athens
- Sochi
- Rio de Janeiro
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- olympics
- montreal
- 1976
- host-city-legacy
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