But then if the city wants to reuse one or two venues for all of the indoor sports, they’d have to extend the games out for months, during which they’d still have to pay for the athletes’ lodging costs at the Olympic Village.
The IOC could, of course, mitigate this by requiring the athletes to arrive so-and-so number of days before their events start and then immediately leave when they win or are eliminated, but I predict this will not go over well with the other countries.
Another issue is that if the Olympics were extended to a month or more, the broadcasting networks will have a very real problem of “viewer fatigue” setting in after the first 2 - 3 weeks.
I still like my proposals from a previous post of mine the best: