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Staying In Rio Presents Some Challenges

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DrFunk

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In the coming weeks we’ll be hearing plenty from the Olympic athletes about their Rio accommodations. (The Australians, who declared their rooms “uninhabitable” due to leaks and exposed wiring, must be feeling great after they were not alerted to an emergency evacuation on Friday due to a small fire—the building’s fire alarms had been deactivated.) But today’s about that group of people who likes to complain in even the best of situations: the media.

Reporters have started to arrive in Rio de Janeiro and get settled in the media village, part of which is quite literally built upon a mass grave for African slaves. And while there’s more to come, early returns put us in mind of the comical shoddiness of Sochi.

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http://deadspin.com/staying-in-rio-...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

More uh, hilarity at link
 

wetflame

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Nothing we haven't seen before (Sochi, as mentioned) unfortunately. Brazil is fairly lackluster when it comes to building regulations anyway, my brother works for the BBC and is out there as part of their Olympic team, he said that the BBC had to bring their own smoke detectors to put in the hotel they were staying at as they didn't have any installed. Apparently buildings only have to meet the standards in place at the time they were built and don't have to be brought up to modern safety levels. Doesn't seem like those modern safety levels have improved much though.
 

Viewt

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Yikes.

I really feel for the folks who have been training their entire lives for this moment, only to show up, and it's this bullshit. Must be kinda demoralizing.
 

shaowebb

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Might want to mention that after the fire when the Australian athletes got back they found that they had been ROBBED. Computers and shit were missing.
 

platocplx

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The Olympics just needs like 2 permanent spaces per country for winter and summer and call it a day. This shit is just ridiculous now.

It always screws the local people of a country and/or just does more harm than good. This is awful.
 
Here's an article about the "water"

http://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/expert-rio-athletes-dont-put-head-water/

The first results of the study published over a year ago showed viral levels at up to 1.7 million times what would be considered worrisome in the United States or Europe. At those concentrations, swimmers and athletes who ingest just three teaspoons of water are almost certain to be infected with viruses that can cause stomach and respiratory illnesses and more rarely heart and brain inflammation — although whether they actually fall ill depends on a series of factors including the strength of the individual’s immune system.
 

SDCowboy

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The Olympics really need to start primarily being held in the US/Canada and large western European counties.
 

idlewild_

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Here's an article about the "water"

http://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/expert-rio-athletes-dont-put-head-water/

The first results of the study published over a year ago showed viral levels at up to 1.7 million times what would be considered worrisome in the United States or Europe. At those concentrations, swimmers and athletes who ingest just three teaspoons of water are almost certain to be infected with viruses that can cause stomach and respiratory illnesses and more rarely heart and brain inflammation — although whether they actually fall ill depends on a series of factors including the strength of the individual’s immune system.


wow. the residents of Rio must have some pretty strong immune systems.
 

SDCowboy

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Why not 'primarily' those places (and others) also?

Because with the likes of South Korea and Japan, the Olympics have a couple of locations they could be held as they are geographically small countries. This is as opposed to Western Europe where there are tons of possible locations, and the US where there are essentially unlimited locations where they could be held. If you hold the Olympics in Japan, essentially the entire country holds the event, so there is only so often it could be held there (assuming they'd want to keep holding it in new locations).
 

nekkid

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Because with the likes of South Korea and Japan, the Olympics have a couple of locations they could be held as they are geographically small countries. This is as opposed to Western Europe where there are tons of possible locations, and the US where there are essentially unlimited locations where they could be held. If you hold the Olympics in Japan, essentially the entire country holds the event, so there is only so often it could be held there (assuming they'd want to keep holding it in new locations).

Well they managed to be successfully held in one city on another small island (apart from sailing events). But that aside, I don't see why certain locations in the Eastern hemisphere shouldn't be given equal weight in the rotation to the places you suggested.
 

SDCowboy

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Well they managed to be successfully held in one city on another small island (apart from sailing events). But that aside, I don't see why certain locations in the Eastern hemisphere shouldn't be given equal weight in the rotation to the places you suggested.

I just explained it to you. There are infinitely more places in the NA and Western Europe that can properly hold it than in the far east, assuming they want to actually hold it somewhere different each time. There is Japan (where the entire country would essentially hold it), maybe SK (same story) and Australia (two logical city possibilities). Thus, it should mostly (not always) be in the major western hubs I had mentioned.
 
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