2016 Summer Olympics in Rio-Welcome to Hell.

[Halfcan]

*

[BlackHelicopters]

"Amateurs " competing in sports. Laughable.

[alpha_omega]

What a disaster...and not a surprise at all. Everyone saw this coming as soon as the IOC announced Rio was the choice.

[Halfcan]

What a disaster...and not a surprise at all. Everyone saw this coming as soon as the IOC announced Rio was the choice.

500,000 people coming there soon- and protesters are holding up signs stating they have No Hospitals. The one they do have was recently stormed by 20 masked gunmen. :rolleyes:

Could get ugly.

[KC_Lee]

500,000 people coming there soon- and protesters are holding up signs stating they have No Hospitals. The one they do have was recently stormed by 20 masked gunmen. :rolleyes:

Could get ugly.

I want to see Joker levels of chaos at this year's Olympics.

[CaliforniaChief]

I just assumed the IOC was engaged in a fair, reasonable process of evaluation and good judgment. :shrug:

[KC_Lee]

I just assumed the IOC was engaged in a fair, reasonable process of evaluation and good judgment. :shrug:

You'll have to consult Nathan P. Thrum and Tommy Flanagan on that for a straight answer.

[Rain Man]

500,000 people coming there soon- and protesters are holding up signs stating they have No Hospitals. The one they do have was recently stormed by 20 masked gunmen. :rolleyes:

Could get ugly.


You have to have priorities, and hosting an Olympics takes priority. People should understand that.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

This is what happens when a corrupt sports cabal determines sites. Same thing as FIFA and Qatar, and Beijing in '08.

[Halfcan]

I want to see Joker levels of chaos at this year's Olympics.

You could be right.

Instead of helping the poor in the shanty towns-they built a Trump wall so you can't see them. ROFL This is not going over to well with the unwashed masses behind the wall.

If you don't see them-they don't exist. :rolleyes:

[Halfcan]

You have to have priorities, and hosting an Olympics takes priority. People should understand that.

ROFL

I wonder if the Olympic torch will make it to the lighting ceremony without being stolen?

[fan4ever]

You could be right.

Instead of helping the poor in the shanty towns-they built a Trump wall so you can't see them. ROFL This is not going over to well with the unwashed masses behind the wall.

If you don't see them-they don't exist. :rolleyes:

Wall at the airport? Don't you see the ghettos as you fly in? Maybe it's "Well, we're descending into Rio...hey, look over there at the giant Jesus".

[Halfcan]

Wall at the airport? Don't you see the ghettos as you fly in? Maybe it's "Well, we're descending into Rio...hey, look over there at the giant Jesus".

ROFL

Instead of dealing with the poor, drugs and gang violence-they are just walling them in - Escape from New York style.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN28291897

[BWillie]

Rio is in financial crisis- they also built massive wall to block views of the endless ghettos from the airport and are now having protest from workers that are paid low wages or not paid at all.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/rio-visitors-greeted-with-welcome-to-hell-banner-224232691.html

Oh and don't forget the Zika fears.

https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/zika-anxiety-builds-as-rio-olympics-loom-and-virus-advances-on-u.s.-mainlan/

Poverty, armed gangs, protesters and Zika-what could go wrong right?

Brazil Is Murder Capital Of The World, But Rio Is Safer Than Compton, Detroit, St. Louis...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2016/01/29/months-before-rio-olympics-murder-rate-rises-in-brazil/#3b276d521a0b

[scho63]

I spent 2 weeks in Rio in 1987 during Carnival. I was lucky as the Cruzeiro, their currency at the time, was crashing and being replaced by the Cruzado, which basically took off three zeros from the Cruzeiro. I had people exchanging me dollars at 4 x's the official rate and a dinner with 4 people of steak, veal, pork, 10 beers, 2 bottles of wine, dessert, appetizers, and salad was about $40 with tip TOTAL for everyone.

I stayed in a private apartment at 222 Barrata Robierto on the 8th floor. I went to the Help discotheque where women were nude or topless.

I caught the clap from a Brazilian women who stayed 10 days with me in my apt protecting me from everyone, showing me the sights, washing my clothes and hers, and then giving me a souvenir in my dick I didn't want.

She took me up to the flavellas to show me where she lived and it was atrocious. Barely running water, all concrete walls with little else, curtains as doors, and dishes piled high and rarely electricity and she lived with three other girls.

I had little bandidos try to steal from me when on the beach at Copacabana and watched them steal from other people. The young boys all trying to shine your shoes and sell you chicklets gum or peanuts for .10

Rio was a shithole then and now it is an even bigger shithole! Olympics and the Olympians are screwed big time!

[scho63]

Brazil Is Murder Capital Of The World

I believe that is incorrect-it is Honduras or Guatemala

[vailpass]

I spent 2 weeks in Rio in 1987 during Carnival. I was lucky as the Cruzeiro, their currency at the time, was crashing and being replaced by the Cruzado, which basically took off three zeros from the Cruzeiro. I had people exchanging me dollars at 4 x's the official rate and a dinner with 4 people of steak, veal, pork, 10 beers, 2 bottles of wine, dessert, appetizers, and salad was about $40 with tip TOTAL for everyone.

I stayed in a private apartment at 222 Barrata Robierto on the 8th floor. I went to the Help discotheque where women were nude or topless.

I caught the clap from a Brazilian women who stayed 10 days with me in my apt protecting me from everyone, showing me the sights, washing my clothes and hers, and then giving me a souvenir in my dick I didn't want.

She took me up to the flavellas to show me where she lived and it was atrocious. Barely running water, all concrete walls with little else, curtains as doors, and dishes piled high and rarely electricity and she lived with three other girls.

I had little bandidos try to steal from me when on the beach at Copacabana and watched them steal from other people. The young boys all trying to shine your shoes and sell you chicklets gum or peanuts for .10

Rio was a shithole then and now it is an even bigger shithole! Olympics and the Olympians are screwed big time!

You barebacked a bitch in Rio and all you got was clap you need to count yourself lucky.

[Halfcan]

Brazil Is Murder Capital Of The World, But Rio Is Safer Than Compton, Detroit, St. Louis...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2016/01/29/months-before-rio-olympics-murder-rate-rises-in-brazil/#3b276d521a0b

This report could also suggest that Brazil is putting all of their resources to help increase the illusion that some kind of personal safety exist?

I am sure the gangs will be lining for the tourist to get off those planes not to mention a potential ISIS attack.

[Rain Man]

I spent 2 weeks in Rio in 1987 during Carnival. I was lucky as the Cruzeiro, their currency at the time, was crashing and being replaced by the Cruzado, which basically took off three zeros from the Cruzeiro. I had people exchanging me dollars at 4 x's the official rate and a dinner with 4 people of steak, veal, pork, 10 beers, 2 bottles of wine, dessert, appetizers, and salad was about $40 with tip TOTAL for everyone.

I stayed in a private apartment at 222 Barrata Robierto on the 8th floor. I went to the Help discotheque where women were nude or topless.

I caught the clap from a Brazilian women who stayed 10 days with me in my apt protecting me from everyone, showing me the sights, washing my clothes and hers, and then giving me a souvenir in my dick I didn't want.

She took me up to the flavellas to show me where she lived and it was atrocious. Barely running water, all concrete walls with little else, curtains as doors, and dishes piled high and rarely electricity and she lived with three other girls.

I had little bandidos try to steal from me when on the beach at Copacabana and watched them steal from other people. The young boys all trying to shine your shoes and sell you chicklets gum or peanuts for .10

Rio was a shithole then and now it is an even bigger shithole! Olympics and the Olympians are screwed big time!


So did you broach the subject of a fivesome? It seems like everything was in place for it.

[Halfcan]

I spent 2 weeks in Rio in 1987 during Carnival. I was lucky as the Cruzeiro, their currency at the time, was crashing and being replaced by the Cruzado, which basically took off three zeros from the Cruzeiro. I had people exchanging me dollars at 4 x's the official rate and a dinner with 4 people of steak, veal, pork, 10 beers, 2 bottles of wine, dessert, appetizers, and salad was about $40 with tip TOTAL for everyone.

I stayed in a private apartment at 222 Barrata Robierto on the 8th floor. I went to the Help discotheque where women were nude or topless.

I caught the clap from a Brazilian women who stayed 10 days with me in my apt protecting me from everyone, showing me the sights, washing my clothes and hers, and then giving me a souvenir in my dick I didn't want.

She took me up to the flavellas to show me where she lived and it was atrocious. Barely running water, all concrete walls with little else, curtains as doors, and dishes piled high and rarely electricity and she lived with three other girls.

I had little bandidos try to steal from me when on the beach at Copacabana and watched them steal from other people. The young boys all trying to shine your shoes and sell you chicklets gum or peanuts for .10

Rio was a shithole then and now it is an even bigger shithole! Olympics and the Olympians are screwed big time!

Did you keep in touch with her? Facebook friends maybe. :D

Lucky you did not get Aids.

[Rain Man]

I spent a day in Rio a few years ago. Copacabana Beach was nothing but fat European tourists. However, the Jesus statue was pretty cool.

[scho63]

You barebacked a bitch in Rio and all you got was clap you need to count yourself lucky.

Drunk as hell, young and stupid, and I think she wanted to get knocked up by a "wealthy" (in her eyes) American.

So did you broach the subject of a fivesome? It seems like everything was in place for it.

With all the sights, sounds, naked and topless women running all over, that was not even a thought at the time.

Did you keep in touch with her? Facebook friends maybe. :D

Lucky you did not get Aids.

No Facebook back in 1987 only postcards!

No Aid's either!

[scho63]

I spent a day in Rio a few years ago. Copacabana Beach was nothing but fat European tourists. However, the Jesus statue was pretty cool.

And the ocean water is dirty and dark. Not ideal IMHO

[alnorth]

The IOC could have had these olympics in Chicago, but no. Have fun in that wasteland surrounded by polluted oceans.

[Red Dawg]

ISIS is licking their chops for the Olympics. Turkey just got plastered with 28 dead and Rio will be next with the worthless games going on.

[SAUTO]

The IOC could have had these olympics in Chicago, but no. Have fun in that wasteland surrounded by polluted oceans.

Shit they had 70 killed there in one weekend

[Rain Man]

Shit they had 70 killed there in one weekend

Yeah, they're probably holding it in Rio due to safety concerns about Chicago.

[SAUTO]

Yeah, they're probably holding it in Rio due to safety concerns about Chicago.

ROFL

I was just sayin...

[vailpass]

Drunk as hell, young and stupid, and I think she wanted to get knocked up by a "wealthy" (in her eyes) American.



With all the sights, sounds, naked and topless women running all over, that was not even a thought at the time.



No Facebook back in 1987 only postcards!

No Aid's either!

I hear you, we've all been there. I'm just glad for you the aids wasn't as prevalent there as it is now. That is some Russian roulette shit.

[Deberg_1990]

NBC coverage should be fair and balanced with copious amounts of swimming and gymnastics

[KChiefs1]

ISIS is licking their chops for the Olympics. Turkey just got plastered with 28 dead and Rio will be next with the worthless games going on.



No way I'd go down there.
It's going to be a bloodbath.


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[Halfcan]

No way I'd go down there.
It's going to be a bloodbath.


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It already is.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/rio-2016/2016/06/27/rio-de-janeiro-violence-leaves-little-confidence-public-security/86442106/

[Halfcan]

Rio’s Leader Warns That The Olympics Could Be A ‘Failure’

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rio-olympics-failure_us_57722971e4b0f168323aca88


A functioning police force and transportation system are necessary, given the rising crime in Rio. Murder and robbery are up 15 percent and 30 percent, respectively, since last year, NPR reports. The city is trying to get new buses off the ground to help tourists avoid the favelas — areas vulnerable to violence, theft and gang activity.

“How are people going to feel protected in a city without security?” Dornelles said.

Should we be worried about the security of our athletes??? We have seen terrorism at the Olympics before!

[Demonpenz]

Kyrie Irving better not get murdered. I have him in a keeper league.

[Tribal Warfare]

If it hasn't been mentioned yet, police shot dead the jaguar who was suppose to be the official Olympics' mascot because it attacked a Rio policeman during a parade.

[Gonzo]

If it hasn't been mentioned yet, police shot dead the jaguar who was suppose to be the official Olympics' mascot because it attacked a Rio policeman during a parade.

LMAO
And we're off. This is going to be a clusterfuck to an amazing and disturbing degree.

I'm expecting Munich times 1,000.

[Holladay]

The wife is a huge Olympics' fan. For me...emphf. Well it might be a heck of a lot more interesting. There are going to be different events: the 2 and 4 door Carjacking, the 30 meter running away from cops, the 6 inch stabbing event, the how you hose a tourist, the long jump over dead people event et. al.

Might be good entertainment.....

[alnorth]

ISIS is licking their chops for the Olympics. Turkey just got plastered with 28 dead and Rio will be next with the worthless games going on.

I dunno, the security is going to be tight, and that is kind of a very long swim. ISIS can walk to Turkey among the crowd.

[JD10367]

What I Give A Shit Concerning Summer Olympics:

1.) That the beach volleyball chicks are in hot uniforms.
2.) That the indoor volleyball chicks are in hot uniforms.
3.) That the swimming chicks are in hot uniforms.
4.) That the gymastics chicks are in hot uniforms.

What I Don't Give A Shit About The Summer Olympics:

1.) Everything else.

[LoneWolf]

4.) That the gymastics chicks are in hot uniforms.

http://i.imgur.com/xf1UTc8.png

[sedated]

<img src="https://d13csqd2kn0ewr.cloudfront.net/uploads/image/file/189318/cropped_rio.jpg" width=400>

[KC_Lee]

If it hasn't been mentioned yet, police shot dead the jaguar who was suppose to be the official Olympics' mascot because it attacked a Rio policeman during a parade.

It's like a Simpsons' episode wrapped in a Monty Python skit on the set of the old Morton Downy Jr. show.

[sedated]

I hear you, we've all been there. I'm just glad for you the aids wasn't as prevalent there as it is now. That is some Russian roulette shit.

Apparently HIV is feared so little now that people have "HIV roulette" parties where they have an orgy with one person that has HIV but no one knows who.

[loochy]

Apparently HIV is feared so little now that people have "HIV roulette" parties where they have an orgy with one person that has HIV but no one knows who.

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/gallery/wtf/wedding-crashers-wtf.gif

[ThaVirus]

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/gallery/wtf/wedding-crashers-wtf.gif



I read about that the other day. They're doing it in Spain, I believe.

And someone posted a thread here like a year ago about "bug chasers" who are basically gay dudes that are actively trying to contract the virus.


Weird ass shit, man.

[ndws]

ROFL

I wonder if the Olympic torch will make it to the lighting ceremony without being stolen?

Not stolen but a local did try to throw a bucket of water on it.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/27/americas/brazil-bucket-of-water-thrown-at-torch/

[Buehler445]

Yeah, and we all thought Sochi was cra cra.

[Halfcan]

I agree with the sentiment-the fallen athletes should be remembered....but is this a good idea considering ISIS is running rampant?

http://www.jta.org/2015/03/02/news-opinion/world/rio-2016-olympic-village-to-commemorate-munich-massacre-and-other-deaths

Kind of poking the bear, is it not.

[Halfcan]

Compete in bacteria and feces filled water?

Athletes at Rio Olympics to compete in 'basically raw sewage', study reveals

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/30/athletes-at-rio-olympics-to-compete-in-basically-raw-sewage-study-reveals

"An AP analysis of water quality revealed dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from human sewage in Olympic and Paralympic venues – results that alarmed international experts and dismayed competitors training in Rio, some of whom have already fallen ill with fevers, vomiting and diarrhea."

"Despite decades of official pledges to clean up the mess, the stench of raw sewage still greets travelers touching down at Rio’s international airport. Prime beaches are deserted because the surf is thick with putrid sludge, and periodic die-offs leave the Olympic lake, Rodrigo de Freitas, littered with rotting fish."

"Kristina Mena, a US expert in risk assessment for waterborne viruses, examined the AP data and estimated that international athletes at all water venues would have a 99% chance of infection if they ingested just three teaspoons of water – though whether a person will fall ill depends on immunity and other factors.

[L.A. Chieffan]

Penz has best post in thread

[Halfcan]

Rio 2016 - Bring Cash!

[ThaVirus]

City of God is an amazing movie

[vailpass]

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/gallery/wtf/wedding-crashers-wtf.gif

This. WTF?????????????

[Beef Supreme]

<img src="https://d13csqd2kn0ewr.cloudfront.net/uploads/image/file/189318/cropped_rio.jpg" width=400>

Can you imagine getting off the airplane in Rio and seeing that?

[Simply Red]

yes I saw a whole deal on this and how Police are bullying to get folks under control. Lots of invasions by the police - some legit - some not - seems they're trying to 'hurry up' and get the streets safe, at almost any cost. I think I saw the spotlight about this on ESPN about a month or two ago.

[SAUTO]

If it hasn't been mentioned yet, police shot dead the jaguar who was suppose to be the official Olympics' mascot because it attacked a Rio policeman during a parade.

This isn't totally true.

The parade was over. It flipped its shit and a cop shot it at the zoo it lived at. It didn't actually attack anything. And it wasn't the official mascot of the Olympics.

Another jaguar is the mascot of the Brazilian Olympic team and I think it's a cartoon.

And it happened a while back, at least a week ago

But you had everything else right

[Dayze]

Rio Olympics.....future 30for30 disaster documentary.

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[chiefqueen]

ISIS is licking their chops for the Olympics. Turkey just got plastered with 28 dead and Rio will be next with the worthless games going on.

Unfortunately you hit the nail on the head. I love the Olympics, and look forward to them, but these games should be cancelled b/c I do not believe Brazil's gov't has the resources or the capacity to adequately secure them. This is the REAL danger NOT Zika.

[chiefqueen]

NBC coverage should be fair and balanced with copious amounts of swimming and gymnastics

That's week 1

The second week is track.

If you want to see other sports (or the entire competitions) download the NBC app (which most of the time is the IOC feed).

BTW I think Rio is just 2 hours ahead of KC.

[Bugeater]

If anyone wants a taste of what a wretched shithole that city is go poke around on Google Streetview for a while. And I'm sure they didn't even bother going into the worst areas.

[Beef Supreme]

If anyone wants a taste of what a wretched shithole that city is go poke around on Google Streetview for a while. And I'm sure they didn't even bother going into the worst areas.

I think it's why they started using driverless cars.

[scho63]

City of God is an amazing movie

:clap::clap:

That shit was the bomb!

[kepp]

ROFL

I wonder if the Olympic torch will make it to the lighting ceremony without being stolen?

Maybe they should fill the giant stadium torch with citronella to keep the zika mosquitos away.

[Halfcan]

Can you imagine getting off the airplane in Rio and seeing that?

It will probably feel just like the Jewish and Black athletes felt going to the games in the summer of 1936 held in Berlin.

Poverty, danger, war looming around every corner, walls built to hide the ghettos.

[Halfcan]

Maybe they should fill the giant stadium torch with citronella to keep the zika mosquitos away.

ROFL Between ISIS, violent gangs, sewage water with disease to swim in, corrupt police- I think zika may be the least of the problems there.

[KC_Lee]

And now this....

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/body-parts-wash-ashore-next-rio-olympic-venue-194441016--spt.html


RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Parts of a mutilated body washed up on the sands of Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, police said, just meters (yards) from where beach volleyball athletes will compete in the upcoming Olympics.

The discovery, first reported to a newspaper by a Rio street vendor, is the latest to unnerve the city as it grapples with rising crime, a recession and exhausted state finances at a time when it hoped to be celebrating the first Olympics ever held in South America.

It was unclear Wednesday afternoon what conditions may have led to the mutilated body but a policeman standing guard by a security perimeter confirmed its existence to Reuters.

Police officials did not immediately return calls to their public affairs office for more details Wednesday afternoon.

The Olympics, which start August 5, were intended to show off an economic boom that has since fizzled in Latin America's biggest country. Now the games come as the state of Rio de Janeiro awaits emergency funding of 2.9 billion reais ($892 million) to ensure financing for public services.

The Olympics also will play out with a backdrop of political instability as Brazil's Senate tries suspended President Dilma Rousseff, who is accused of accounting tricks in the government budget, to determine whether she will be ousted for good. The trial is expected to finish after the games.

The state in recent months, even as it races to complete a new subway line and other key pieces of infrastructure promised for the Olympics, has missed crucial debt payments and has been forced to postpone purchasing and salary payments for everyone from public health workers to police.

Rio's acting governor, Francisco Dornelles, earlier this month declared a financial emergency in the state because of budget shortfalls caused by a recession, plummeting oil revenues and a run-up in public expenditures in recent years.

He has fretted publicly that the Olympics could be "a big failure" if financing does not come through but Brazil's federal government has said that it will.

Earlier this week, police and firemen demonstrated at Rio's international airport, protesting their missed wages and greeting arriving passengers with a sign reading "Welcome to Hell."

[Rain Man]

Maybe they should fill the giant stadium torch with citronella to keep the zika mosquitos away.

Good point. It's the Olympics. These people are world class, so let them protect themselves. Line the top of the stadium with archers and javelin throwers. Use the gymnasts to be sure that the trusses of the stadium don't have bombs. Get the powerlifters and wrestlers to man the ticket gates. There's a reason that these events exist in the first place, and it's to show who the best warriors are.

(By the way, this would be a great movie script. Can the Olympic athletes survive and escape Rio? I'd watch it.)

[alpha_omega]

And now this....

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/body-parts-wash-ashore-next-rio-olympic-venue-194441016--spt.html

That's pleasant. No way would i be going to these games.

[kepp]

Good point. It's the Olympics. These people are world class, so let them protect themselves. Line the top of the stadium with archers and javelin throwers. Use the gymnasts to be sure that the trusses of the stadium don't have bombs. Get the powerlifters and wrestlers to man the ticket gates. There's a reason that these events exist in the first place, and it's to show who the best warriors are.

(By the way, this would be a great movie script. Can the Olympic athletes survive and escape Rio? I'd watch it.)

"Faster - Higher - Murder"
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[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.

[DaneMcCloud]

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.

LMAO

That sounds awful but at least your family members didn't get Zika.

[Why Not?]

LMAO

That sounds awful but at least your family members didn't get Zika.

That's what I'm sayin.


Ultimately we were able to eradicate the bed bugs for about $1500. Got off way lucky there, from what I've heard.

[Halfcan]

FORMER Brazil soccer great Rivaldo is telling tourists to stay away from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro because “you’ll be putting your life at risk”.


http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/olympics-2016/rio-olympics-girls-murder-prompts-brazilian-football-star-rivaldo-to-tell-visitors-to-stay-away-from-games/news-story/a502c92f66cc5a31533ed52a2585d455

[Halfcan]

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.

I stayed at the Rio when it was brand new. Beautiful hotel, shitty service,and we had to walk a mile from our room to the elevators every time we wanted to leave. Terrible layout.

The dealers were not friendly but pulled $500 off the craps table there. Would not go back.

[Rain Man]

I stayed at the Rio when it was brand new. Beautiful hotel, shitty service,and we had to walk a mile from our room to the elevators every time we wanted to leave. Terrible layout.

The dealers were not friendly but pulled $500 off the craps table there. Would not go back.

They should have a couple of floors where the room are $10 a night, but they're 40 square feet and never get cleaned. Call them the Favela floors.

[Buehler445]

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.

LMAO

[Baby Lee]

World record set, by an American Olympic non-qualifier

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9o2Kc53yQto" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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/news/Russia-Calls-Rio-Olympics-Ban-Ruling-A-Crime-Against-Sport-20160721-0012.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/2016/07/22/rio-olympics-security-scrutinized-after-terror-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]

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.

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I am totally uninterested this time around.

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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.

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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/olympics-2016-rio-village-australia/index.html