2016 Summer Olympics in Rio-Welcome to Hell.

[Halfcan]

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[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

So, a few years ago the wife and I decided it would be cool to take the kids to an Olympics, so we stared a "Rio" fund. Late 2014, we ran into some natives of Brazil who said "under no circumstances should you take your children anywhere near that city". So instead, her and I took a nice trip to the Rio in Vegas during May of 2015 instead. Lost a grand at the tables and got bed bugs from the hotel and still feel like we got the much better end of the deal.

[Baby Lee]

World record set, by an American Olympic non-qualifier



Lifetime love for female sprinters remains unabated.

[Halfcan]

Without the doped up Russians in the Olympics-our track and field teams should dominate.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/new...0721-0012.html

[Halfcan]

If you are planning a terror attack on the Olympics- you might not want to brag about it on Social Media beforehand.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/...r-arrests.html

Local police arrested 10 people in 10 states across Brazil on Thursday for purportedly pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and communicating through social media about a potential attack during the Summer Olympics, FOX News reported. Authorities described the suspects at “complete amateurs,” but noted that some had attempted to secure weapons, including an AK-47 assault rifle.

[MMXcalibur]

Who's worse when it comes to exploiting a countries' infrastructure: FIFA or the IOC?

[GloucesterChief]

Originally Posted by KCtotheSB

Who's worse when it comes to exploiting a countries' infrastructure: FIFA or the IOC?

I think FIFA has gotten more kickbacks lately. The IOC has to deal with Westernized countries, particularly the winter Olympics, where outright bribery is frowned upon.

[scho63]

I WILL WATCH ZERO MINUTES OF THIS SHIT FEST!

[Rain Man]

I was thinking about the Olympics yesterday, and realized that the location can really affect the games. If the games are in a humid tropical climate, you're not going to see any records in the marathon, and the race is going to go to the best hot-weather runners. The jumpers may do better in high-altitude places like Mexico City (Bob Beamon, anyone?), but the endurance events won't. It seems like if you want to give the athletes their best performance, you should be holding the games in a dry sea-level location with temperatures in the 50s. Maybe some place like Ulaan Baatar or some place in central Sweden.

[alpha_omega]

I am totally uninterested this time around.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by KCtotheSB

Who's worse when it comes to exploiting a countries' infrastructure: FIFA or the IOC?

Historically the IOC has been worse, but recently FIFA has gotten greedy with demanding the construction of multiple large stadiums which will never see use after the event. I still can't believe they built a stadium deep in the Amazon jungle. They had to fly in or float most of the construction materials down a river.

[alpha_omega]

Olympics 2016: Blocked toilets, exposed wires at Rio Athletes' Village

Rio de Janeiro (CNN)Blocked toilets, leaky pipes and exposed wires ... just a few of the reasons Australia's Olympic delegation says it has refused to move into the athletes village, now open to arriving Olympians.

The village, comprised of 31 17-storey towers, opened its doors on Sunday, less than two weeks before the start of Rio's Summer Games on August 5. But the first day was marred by controversy.
"We felt that our building was not safe, because of a combination of plumbing and electrical issues," the Australian Chef de Mission Kitty Chiller told journalists, adding that a stress test had been carried out -- opening taps and turning on lights simultaneously -- and discovered "significant leakages."
"I have never experienced, this is my fifth Olympic games, a village in this state or lack of state of readiness in that point and time," Chiller said, adding the athletes would stay in hotels until the problems were fixed.

Argentina's Olympic delegation has also experienced problems at the village.
"While the apartments look finished outside, and even inside, when we started testing them, we found some problems that have to do with plumbing and electricity," said the president of the Argentinian Olympic Committee Gerardo Werthein.
"In our building, we have five floors and two of them are uninhabitable. We are renting a number of apartments outside the villa and we will move the technical personnel and staff to privilege our athletes, so we can guarantee proper accommodations for our team.

"We all know how difficult is to find accommodations outside the villa at this point, and although Rio says they will be ready, we cannot take any chances."
The Local Olympic Committee admitted there were some problems and said they would be addressed in the next few days.
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"Every Olympic Village, because of its magnitude, needs some adjustments until it becomes perfect. The important thing is that everything will be resolved before the Games, without disturbing the athletes," president of Rio 2016's organizing committee Carlos Arthur Nuzman said in a statement.
The mayor of Rio de Janeiro appeared to make light of the situation, however, sparking what some media have called "Kangaroogate." At a receiving ceremony at the Village, he offered to get a kangaroo for the Australian Olympic Committee.
"We want them to feel at home here," Eduardo Paes said. "I almost feel like putting a kangaroo to jump up and down in front of their building."
Responding to Paes' offer, Australian committee spokesman Mike Tancred told a Brazilian newspaper "we do not need kangaroos, we need plumbers to account for the many puddles found in the apartments."

The Olympic Village will be home to 17,000 athletes and coaches during the Games.
The British Olympic Association acknowledged that while there were some "maintenance difficulties" with the village, the first Team Great Britain athletes will begin moving in on Tuesday.
"Some (countries) are comfortable for their teams to move in, and I envy them," said Chiller on Sunday. "We are reasonably confident we will be able to enter the village on Wednesday."
Numerous safety concerns have been raised ahead of the start of the 2016 Olympics on August 5, including the threat of international terrorism and high crime levels in the host city.

One foreign athlete living in Rio allegedly got a taste of that crime on Saturday.

New Zealand jiu jitsu athlete Jason Lee said on Facebook that he was "kidnapped" by armed men in military police uniforms and forced to withdraw cash from two separate ATMs.
Jiu jitsu is not an Olympic sport, so Lee is not competing in the Games, but the former national jiu jitsu champion has lived in Rio for almost a year.
"I was threatened with arrest if I did not get in their private car and accompany them to two ATMs to withdraw a large sum of money for a bribe," he said on Facebook.

"I'm not sure what's more depressing, the fact this stuff is happening to foreigners so close to the Olympic Games or the fact that Brazilians have to live in a society that enables this ... on a daily basis."
He told New Zealand's Fairfax Media that he "feared for his life" during the alleged incident. Lee's girlfriend, a reporter for Fairfax, said on Twitter that the pair had reported the incident to police.
Rio police could not immediately be reached for comment.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/sport/...lia/index.html