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The Most Expensive Summer Olympics of All Time

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    FBN’s Gerri Willis breaks down the five costliest summer Olympics in History.

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Expensive Summer Olympics of all time according to Forbes.

Coming ended at number five the Sydney Games back in 2000 cost three point eight billion dollars an Aussie tax -- end up putting over 30% of that bill.

Number for the 1988 Seoul games with a grand total four billion number three that 1992 Barcelona games cost nine and a half billion dollars.

Coming at number two the 2004 Athens Games.

Talk about an epic Greek strategy tragedy that is this financially strapped city spent fifteen million dollars.

-- push the national deficit well above the EU's limit at 3%.

And the number one most expensive Summer Olympics on record the 2008 Beijing Games the Chinese spent a whopping forty billing and but of course this country has plenty of money to absorb the costs it's too early to see where when -- won't fall on this list of the original budget is just over --

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