Talk:2014 FIFA World Cup preparations

Most expensive World Cup claim and dubious cost estimates
I can't verify in the citations given the claim that the 2014 World Cup is the most expensive one ever. It may be Original Research. Four citations are given. The titles imply that each refers to the cost of one tournament, so the editor may have made an assertion based on a comparison of the costs of tournaments mentioned in these four sources. The first is a dead link, but the closest archive copy mentions only an estimate of the cost of the 2014 World Cup. The second reference is inaccessible. The third mentions the organisation cost of the 1998 World cup in one bullet point. The fourth starts with a note from the author to say that it is draft only and should not be referenced. I'm not convinced of the reliability of any of them. I'm not an expert on this, but I suspect there are numerous estimates for each tournament, depending on exact definitions and what aspects are included. Since each cost estimate comes from a different source, it's not clear that the calculations are comparable. The $30 million estimate for 1994 seemed particularly out of line with the others, so I had a quick search, and found a published article that gives an estimate of the losses as $5·5 to $9·3 billion. Cimbalom (talk) 02:15, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

I can only say the first source is from O Estado de S. Paulo. I have the same opinion about the others, though,. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 23:13, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

I added some sources that help give the article more credible informationScastr5 (talk) 18:49, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * "526 billion dollars allotted to infrastructure spanning from 2011 to 2014" here (second paragraph) sounds too high to be accurate.  Mini  apolis  21:48, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

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