The Olympics went on sale this week. Maybe you saw the fliers?

Don’t want to spend $50 billion on the Games, as ruble-rich Russia did to host in Sochi last February? The International Olympic Committee has a deal for you! It will kick in a “substantial amount” to help you pay for the Olympics and its costly bidding process.

You say you can afford only part of the Olympic price tag, and you’d like to share the cost with the city — or even the country — next door? Have at it!

Looking to host an Olympics with your favorite sport, even though it’s not in the Olympic program? Don’t let that stop you! Just ask the I.O.C. to put that sport into your Games — baseball, cricket, Ultimate Frisbee, whatever — and it could be a done deal.

In its bid to make hosting the Olympics more enticing, and to avoid potentially difficult choices — off to Kazakhstan or back to Beijing in 2022? — the I.O.C. basically has become a salesman in an expensive suit asking, “How can we help you walk away with an Olympics today?”