Top 7 Most Expensive Olympic Games ever Organized

No. 5: Sydney Games – 2000, Australia


Budget: $3.8 billion

According to the Auditor General of the New South Wales region, who issued its report back in 2002, the Olympic Games held two years prior to that ended up costing Sydney about $6.6 billion AUD or $3.8 billion USD. It is estimated that the public paid approximately a third of these costs.