Not every Olympic Village becomes a ghost town After the crowds disperse and the athletes fly home, some Olympic venues are left in a state of limbo, enshrined in sports history but without a future purpose. Just six months after the Winter Olympics in Sochi, for example, the Olympic Village already looked like a ghost town. Similar architecture ruin porn can be seen in Beijing, Athens, and Rio de Janeiro.
But while there?s a constant debate over whether hosting the Olympics is worth it, there are a few cities that have had long-term success with venues built for the games. In these cases, ski jump centers still host thousands of athletes each year, and huge sports arenas now function as multi-sport community centers.
In honor of the Winter Games currently underway in Pyeongchang, South Korea, we?ve rounded up six Olympic venue success stories from summer and winter games in the past 25 years. The Lysgardsbakkene Ski Jumping Arena from the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer

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At the ski jump in Lillehammer, you can still watch people jump almost every day of the year.

With a population of around 26,000 people, it would be easy to think that the small Norwegian town of Lillehammer would be unable to maintain the giant facilities required for the Olympics. But Lillehammer is in many ways the gold standard for post-Olympic success, with nearly all of the venues still in use. The Lysgardsbakkene Ski Jumping Arena?located directly...