Already, in Mexico itself, restaurants and cinemas have closed, football matches are played in empty stadia and the streets are relatively deserted.All this can have a very signficant short-term economic impact; it is estimated, for example, that SARS cost 2.6% of Hong Kong's GDP.
Record crowds gathered at stadia.
But those stadia cannot be unbuilt.
New York stadia need not be staid.
"Football is connecting people in the stadia and connecting people outside the stadia," Blatter said.
"My number one priority was that I wanted full stadia.
Stadia hairs were first applied by James Watt in 1771.
But this has only pushed the problems outside stadia".
In the end, the games were overshadowed by subsequent events in Ukraine, and Sochi itself was given a major makeover, but the alleged huge corruption involved in the construction and the "white elephant" nature of many of the stadia has left locals wondering if it was worth it.
Today politics is on the decline in the stadia.
