Editing 1996 Summer Olympics (section)

===Budget===
The total cost of the 1996 Summer Olympics was estimated to be around US$1.7 billion.<ref name=":0" /> The venues and the Games themselves were funded entirely via private investment,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/04/weekinreview/so-you-want-to-hold-an-olympics.html?pagewanted=print|title=So, You Want to Hold an Olympics|last=Applebome|first=Peter|date=August 4, 1996|access-date=August 17, 2008|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> and the only public funding came from the U.S. government for security, and around $500&nbsp;million of public money used on physical public infrastructure including streetscaping, road improvements, Centennial Olympic Park (alongside $75&nbsp;million in private funding), expansion of the airport, improvements in public transportation, and redevelopment of public housing projects.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UNSWLJ/1999/38.html#Heading21|title=The Olympic Legacy in Atlanta – [1999] UNSWLJ 38; (1999) 22(3) University of New South Wales Law Journal 902|journal=University of New South Wales Law Journal|year=1999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111130191143/http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UNSWLJ/1999/38.html|archive-date=November 30, 2011|url-status=live|access-date=June 16, 2009|last1=Engle|first1=Sam Marie}}</ref> $420&nbsp;million worth of tickets were sold, sale of sponsorship rights accounted for $540 million, and sale of the domestic broadcast rights to [[NBC]] accounted for $456&nbsp;million. In total, the Games turned a profit of $19 million.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2016/07/18/Olympics/Atlanta-by-the-numbers.aspx |url-access=registration |title=Atlanta Olympics: By The Numbers|date=July 18, 2018|website=Sports Business Daily|language=en|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

The cost for Atlanta 1996 compares with costs of $4.6&nbsp;billion for Rio 2016, $40–44&nbsp;billion for Beijing 2008, and $51 billion for Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics (the most expensive Olympic Games without differentiating between summer and winter in history). The average cost for the Summer Games since 1960 is $5.2&nbsp;billion. Using the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] financing model, this edition was organized 100% privately without any cent of public money. Beijing 2008 and Sochi 2014 were financed entirely by the governments of their respective countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/oct/09/sochi-2014-olympics-money-corruption |title=Sochi 2014: the costliest Olympics yet but where has all the money gone? |last=Gibson |first=Owen |date=October 9, 2013 |work=The Guardian |access-date=December 4, 2020}}</ref>