Now, it is a consensus for the cities that bid and host the Olympics to take advantage of the popularity of the Games to improve themselves. But, only by the appropriate means under the condition of understanding the character of the Games in-depth can the goals be achieved better. With the materials from the recent Games, this paper uses the demonstration, logic discussion, the multiplier theory and diamond theory as the methods and basic theories, from the aspects as the followings to research the characters of the Olympic Games completly, such as the commercial opportunities involved in the Games, the impacts on the development of the relative industries and industry clusters, the periodicity of driving the cities economy, etc. And the conclusion is given that the Olympic Games have the opportunity resource character on improving cities.
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