This is interesting in light of another trend: Just recently the citizens of Hamburg rejected having the Olympics in the city in a referendum. And they weren&#x27;t the first, a number of cities have rejected major sports events when the people were asked.<p>What&#x27;s going on there is imho quite similar: By default it&#x27;s expected that the costs of major sports events are largely payed by the public. But a large part of the population has no interest in that and asks why they should pay to make people rich that they don&#x27;t care about.<p>It seems the sports complex is in large partsdepend ing on income payed by people that don&#x27;t care about it. It&#x27;s only good if that&#x27;s going to end. Sports events should be payed for by the people who like it, not by everyone else.