Saudi Arabia just won a bid for the 2029 Asian Winter Games. The $500 billion city they're set to be hosted in doesn't exist yet.
Five years after the project was announced, it's unclear to what degree construction has been completed. The city has a residential camp of 2,000 employees,The residential camp, called Neom Community 1, is made up of"neat lawns and identical white homes" the size of shipping containers, which the report compared to"a Google campus and a minimum security prison."
"I was not alone in realizing that it was spurious at best," Andy Wirth, an American hospitality executive who worked on Neom in 2020, told Bloomberg. "The complete absence of being tethered to reality, objectively, is what was demonstrated there." The Asian Winter Games are held every four years. Saudi Arabia stands to be the first West Asian country to host the event, which was most recently held in Sapporo, Japan, in 2017.Subscribe to push notifications
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