Top 7 Most Expensive Olympic Games ever Organized

No. 2: Athens Games – 2004, Greece


Budget: $15 billion

Though the Greeks put on a great show during the Athens Games in 2004, the massive amount of money they spent to organize the event came back to haunt them, when the country was hit with a massive debt. In 2004, Greece’s national deficit reached a whopping 5.3%, more than 2% over what the European Union was allowing at that time.