Coverage leading up to the Olympic Games is always peppered with shots of the chosen venue and all the special preparations that are made to make the host ready for the grand event.
But what about after the torch goes out? What happens to these destinations—which are picked so many years in advance and go through so many steps to prepare—after the pomp and circumstance is over and done?
Thanks to Twitter Moments’ “The second lives of Winter Olympics venues” the social media world has an answer to those very questions.
The Vine collaboration, dated November 4, features a few past Winter Olympics hosts during warmer seasons, and shows how different these places are when the snow melts.
The Olympic Stadium from the Salt Lake City games in 2002 looks a bit different with green grass and dirt-brown mountain sides.
No Olympics were held in 1940 and 1944.
The Olympic Jumping Show at Lake Placid. pic.twitter.com/MJeNkOoSvf
— Cristina (@cmlabrooks) August 4, 2015
The site of the Lillehammer ski jump appears to have been turned into a zip line, and looks more like a location for filming a scene from “Gladiator” than the powder-covered winter wonderland it was during the 1994 games.
Lillehammer olympic ski jump transformed 2 zip lining #workbreak #fun #Lillehammer #ziplining #Entrepreneur #Norway pic.twitter.com/SR2tQNsZCk
— Kick-It Trainer (@KickItTrainer) May 30, 2015
With all the love this Twitter "Moment" Vine is getting on the Internet, hopefully more cities will want to join in and there will be equally-epic follow-ups.
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