What is the author’s purpose for including Barcelona’s 1975 city-renovation plans?What is the author’s purpose for including Barcelona’s 1975 city-renovation plans? A. to support the theory that only cities with authoritarian governments could get away with wasting billions of dollars on hosting the Olympics
B. to provide a counterexample to the London Olympics, which cost almost US$20 billion but soon after drove tourism rates to an all-time high
C. to provide an example of a city that ran a successful Olympics on a tight budget by using existing buildings rather than building facilities from scratch
D. to explain that even though Barcelona experienced a boom in tourism after the Olympics were held there in 1992, the boom was not due to the Olympics alone