Simulado Agência Nacional de Transportes Aquaviários - ANTAQ | Analista Administrativo - Ciências Contábeis | 2019 pre-edital | Questão 248

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Once more with feeling Tokyo’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics, observed
many of its disappointed residents afterwards, failed because of
a lack of passion. After years of rising economic insecurity and
public debt, Tokyoites simply could not gather enough
enthusiasm to put on the world’s costliest sporting
extravaganza. There was no such problem this time. In beating
Madrid and Istanbul on September 7th for the right to host the
2020 Games, Tokyo impressed the International Olympic
Committee (IOC) with a bid which is supported by 70% of the
city’s population. That level of backing has risen by
percentage points since the earthquake/tsunami that wrecked
Japan’s northeast coast in March 2011.
It might appear strange that it took a disaster to
rekindle Tokyo’s passion for the Olympics, but the city’s
government relentlessly sold the idea that the event would help
Japan recover — and many Japanese believe it. Ironically then,
the lingering Fukushima nuclear crisis, triggered by that
disaster, threatened Tokyo’s bid at the final hurdle. A string of
problems at the leaky Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 230 km
(140 miles) from the capital, put Tokyo’s Olympic organisers
on the defensive, and forced Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to find
$470m to plug the leaks. The world’s top athletes will be safe
from radiation, he pledged before the IOC’s final vote on
Saturday in Buenos Aires. “Let me assure you the situation is
under control. It has never done and will never do any damage
to Tokyo,” he said.
Mr. Abe had less to say about whether Japan can
afford the games. Tokyo will build 22 of the 37 Olympic
venues from scratch, and spend $1 billion refurbishing the
national Olympic stadium, the centerpiece of Japan’s
Olympics. The government’s estimated price tag for all this
construction is ¥409 billion yen ($4.1 billion). That is almost
certainly optimistic: every single Games since 1960 has failed
to meet the cost target. The average overrun has been a
whopping 179%.
Nonetheless, can the Olympics bring some lasting
benefit to Japan? It seems that those 70% of Tokyo residents
certainly believe so. Internet: www.economist.com (adapted).

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

Since the 1960’s Olympic Games, the cost of each event has
nearly doubled.

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Fonte: AUDITOR FEDERAL DE CONTROLE EXTERNO - AUDITORIA GOVERNAMENTAL / TCU / 2013 / CESPE