Eventually the area became an interrogation and torture center under Communist rule. For 50 years, Soviet forces occupied the grounds. These barracks remain, rotting away on the village outskirts.

And if you know anything about Greece’s current debt situation, you know that it doesn’t have a lot of money to do things like turning an abandoned Olympics Village into public housing.

The majority of the cost overruns fell on the Greek government, which built all the expensive, highly specific buildings you need to host the Olympics - a village, a media center, an Olympic ...

their best performance - at the time - for several decades The Athens Olympics were meant to be a celebration of the Games' history, as the spiritual home of Olympic sport hosted the world in the ...

Business Insider reported that just six months after the Games ended, the Olympic Village was abandoned. The IOC said just two venues were abandoned, the BMX track shown during and after the Games ...