They will never know the maniacal joy of Survival Season, the glee of an empty golf course or the world's most perfect sport: pond hockey.

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Unlike many former Olympic sports complexes, which wind up as half-empty hulks, the course could have a popular afterlife.

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To foodies, of course, the plate is always half-empty, but in this case they may have a point.

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As a result we are now in a situation with eight or nine thousand apartments in planning consents, lots of empty apartments but virtually no family housing, which of course has always been the mainstay of demand.

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If the NFL were run on these principles, of course, and offered such a shoddy product, their stadiums would be empty, no one would watch on television and the TV contracts would be canceled, along with the sponsorship deals.

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