Yet More Uplifting News from Rio

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I suppose the athletes are mostly teens and twentysomethings who have trained hard and see this experience as another adventure. But really, even as a journalist you couldn't pay me enough to go there this year. The police had gone on strike over not being paid and inadequate supplies...even as far as no toilet paper available at the stations and no gas for the squad cars.

Apparently the security firm that was hired was short several hundred officers so they've been given notice. Default mode is going back to the original overworked, unpaid, resident police force. Add a high crime rate already+Zika+some random terrorists who would just love to make a statement...I can't see this ending well.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/rio-ol...e-takes-over-221722153.html?hl=1&noRedirect=1
 

I'd be somewhat concerned if I had a relative there. You're right, they are mainly kids and should be assured of their health and safety. Hope all turns out OK.
 

After all I've read about this Olympics and how unsanitary, unsafe, and diseased it is I cannot understand why they are still holding it in Rio.:confused:
 
US basketball team staying on ocean liner, not in the Olympic Village.

http://www.sportingnews.com/other-s...er-olympic-village/1qmlezmz4hs631ck5jwm297bzk

Athletes robbed

http://wsav.com/2016/08/02/olympic-athletes-robbed-in-rio/

Water quality worse than before.

http://www.nbcmontana.com/sports/ri...at-muddies-waters-as-games-draw-near/42344464

So three teaspoons of water is your limit, no more, got it?

Now the Rio air has been found to be polluted.

http://www.newsweek.com/rio-olympic...ijing-who-environment-dangerous-deadly-486666
 
Denmark team robbed

The Denmark Olympic team robbed of electronics including cell phones and at least one Ipad. Team officials also say the dorms/team living quarters have 150 issues in 36 rooms and all the extra personal brought in to fix & maintain contributed to the thefts.

http://www.thelocal.dk/20160803/danish-olympic-team-hit-by-theives

In other words the host country and/or locals don't give two hoots about the Olympics or Olympians other than another source for their criminal activities.
 
Between the criminal targeting of these athletes, and the raw sewage that passes for water in the bay, this years Olympics is shaping up to be a real mess. If these athletes are wise, they will only venture our in large groups.
 
Samples taken last March showed 26 million adenoviruses per liter of water, but this June the level hit more than 37 million adenoviruses per liter, meaning athletes who took in the equivalent of just three teaspoons of that water would become infected.

Plus Zika, plus being robbed possibly on a daily basis...you just pray nobody gets seriously sick or injured while they are there.
 
The opening-ceremonies were artistically triumphant... until about 45-minutes in when Antarctica and the Arctic melted... leaving only a single flower on Earth, or something. Some kid in a silver sun-suit, rocking a boom-box, rescued the flower. Then came a redux of the opening, which depicted the evolution of life...

One of the CBC-announcers disappointedly ventured: " Well, it'll be interesting to see how world-networks react to politics being injected into the ceremonies. "

The entrance of the athletes began immediately after, dispelling the awkwardness in the stadium. Who knows what NBC was doing. CBC began broadcasting in actual time, about an hour earlier.
 
Death Race 2000 or the bad bad luck Olympics

Butterfly said:
Yuck, so he went into that horribly polluted water.
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Wonder if that three teaspoon limit for ingestion applies to absorption into the skin.

Well I guess it's better than breaking a leg and being dropped by medics.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...mnast-samir-ait-said-broken-leg-a7177186.html

Or being the recipient of an unwanted bullet

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...ics-media-tent-equestrian-20160806-story.html

OR the target of an intended bullet

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/08/06/two-shot-dead-near-rio-olympics.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl


 
U.S. men won the GOLD in the 4 x 100 swimming relays. I think they finished by .5 seconds ahead of number two France. GO USA!!
 
And no one cares one iota about the millions living in poverty-stricken shanty towns!
Showing off and "bravado" are the name of this game.
 
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