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Staying In Sochi Is A Hilarious Adventure in the ass.

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Amir0x

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Darklord said:
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Dmitry Chernyshenko: Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee President & CEO.
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jesus. I can't tell if the problems are being amplified because of the scrutiny already on Russia and that these sorts of things happened in some past Olympics I don't know about, or if this is just already a huge clusterfuck of failed preparation.
 
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Magna_Mixalis

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What does that say about Vancouver where a course not only tried, but succeeded?
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You got me. I forgot about that, to my embarrassment. No excuse for Canada, either, as there were worries about the track's design before the event due to the speeds.

Doesn't make it any less worrying, though, that similar complaints are starting to crop up a couple of days before things are supposed to kick off. At this point, I'm just hoping that all of the "train wreck" talk remains figurative, and not literal.
 
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Magna_Mixalis said:
You got me. I forgot about that, to my embarrassment. No excuse for Canada, either, as there were worries about the track's design before the event due to the speeds.

Doesn't make it any less worrying, though, that similar complaints are starting to crop up a couple of days before things are supposed to kick off. At this point, I'm just hoping that all of the "train wreck" talk remains figurative, and not literal.
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For what it is worth, I do believe that FIS (and the luge equivalent, etc) are in charge of the actual course designs, not the hosts. Might be wrong about this though.
 
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Not even remotely close. Even the 2012 G4S security fuckup was quickly remedied by the army.

London and Vancouver are massive, established cities. When the landowner and construction contracts went out, they were snapped up immediately because the buildings had value regardless of the Olympics (e.g. London's Olympic Village was quickly repurposed as affordable housing a year later). With Sochi, most of these facilities and hotels are going to be empty and abandoned the moment the games end, so the only way to get them built is through handouts and corruption. It will never become the international tourist destination Putin wants.

People also forget the Winter Olympics is much smaller in scale compared to the Summer games. Far fewer athletes attend and you only need a fraction of the stadiums and facilities. For Russia to spend so much on so little, with such poor results, is mind boggling.
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Well, you need to get you facts straight. Olympic Village will be converted to homes after games. So you are wrong,
 
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Piggus

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I visited my cousin in Ukraine, and we were walking through a square in Chortkiv, and a dog walked up to me and I instinctively patted it as it walked by, and he freaked out, "what are you doing? Don't pet stray dogs," and he laughed, telling me he didn't want to get rabies.

As a Canadian, it wouldn't occur to me that a dog walking around in a public square with lots of people was a stray. But then I started looking around, and yup, there were a lot of strays!
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Some South American countries have this problem too. Saw literally hundreds of stray dogs in Peru a couple years ago in every city except Lima. It was incredibly sad. Cusco was the worst... We were sitting in the central square and about 15 of them came running through looking for food. Non of the strays were unfriendly but you're not supposed to pet them due to fleas and other parasites.
 
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Zaph

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Well, you need to get you facts straight. Olympic Village will be converted to homes after games. So you are wrong,
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Of course they say they will. It's what almost every host country does.

But the point of my post, which you seem to have missed, is that Sochi is a tiny 300k community, not an bustling city. Will all these facilities be used and are they needed post-Olympics? Is there really a demand for small, highrise apartments? Sochi will end up as another Sarajevo or Athens.
 
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scamartilhon

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Actually, the company I work for has a similar warning in the bathroom. It is pretty common here in Portugal. Most people just ignore it and flush the toilet paper, though.
 
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Fuzzy

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Pillow outlets would be great if you needed an electric blanket to keep warm at night. Then again, I wouldn't want to sleep while covered in something that's plugged into anything there.
 
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speculawyer

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Dan Wetzel ✔ @DanWetzel
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To anyone in Sochi: I am now in possession of three light bulbs. Will trade for a door handle. This offer is real:
2:23 PM - 4 Feb 2014
 
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demolitio

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HappyBivouac said:
This thread is amazing.

"People in other parts of the world don't do things exactly like Americans do!? I am shocked and appalled."
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It's almost as if you read none of the thread you're commenting on just so you can slam Americans even though you'll notice a lot of talk from Europeans in here as well about some of the lunacy going on there.

"People expect fucking water that is safe to drink? I am shocked an appalled."
 
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thomaser

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Sochi might be a clusterfuck, but I just read an article about how nice Moscow has become. They've spent lots of olympic money there, too, but in that town it has been well spent. It's supposedly really clean and nice now. Not that strange... that's where people will visit anyway after the olympics are over.
 
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The only explanation I can think of for that radiator is that there was/was meant to be a floor there and they took it out. The bed outlet? No fucking idea.
 
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neorej

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World to Russia:'Sochi is a messy clusterfuck.'

Russia responds:'Da, it was fine until you brought in gay propaganda. Now everything is broken, backwards and weird. Not our fault, gay fault. '
 
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WarrenMax007

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thomaser said:
Sochi might be a clusterfuck, but I just read an article about how nice Moscow has become. They've spent lots of olympic money there, too, but in that town it has been well spent. It's supposedly really clean and nice now. Not that strange... that's where people will visit anyway after the olympics are over.
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We got new trains and subway trains. It's true. Moscow is pretty downtown but the further you get the worse it gets. But i can see little changes.
 
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Dutch Patriot said:
Good thing they also got the World Cup in 2018. They know how to do business!
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Well World Cup will be all over the country and we only have like 3 stadiums that fit all world standarts, so they'll build new ones. Everyone who'll play in Moscow or St. Petersburg will be pretty happy. Good airports, good subway, 5 star hotels, boutiques, Red Square and museums of course.
It might get pretty bad in other cities.
 
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