The cost of the Sochi games: $19 million per Olympic athlete

The 2014 Winter Olympics are seven times more expensive than the last Winter Games, and cost $20 billion more than the Summer Games in Beijing. Here is how much money that is.

Sochi Olympics: most expensive ever

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