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Staying In Sochi Is A Hilarious Adventure in the ass.

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Pedrito

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Suikoguy said:
It really is amazing.

1.) The location is better suited for the Summer Olympics.
2.) It's one of the few unsuitable places in Russia for the Winter Olympics.
3.) It would have been cheaper for Russia to host it pretty much anywhere else, so no long expensive highways would be needed to reach areas cold enough to actually have the events.
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2)No, it's pretty much the only suitable place in Russia. You need a major ski resort with a vertical drop of at least 800 metres for the downhill race. It's all about height, not temperature. Finland, for example, could never host the winter Olympics because they don't have mountains high enough.
 
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bone_and_sinew

breaking down barriers in gratuitous nudity
Funky Papa said:
I'm Spanish and it's probably for the better. We could probably host it in a month's notice, yet it would somehow* result in massive losses.


*corruption
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The World Cup in Russia on the other hand will be a massive financial boon for banana companies since the pitches will be covered in them.
 
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diehard

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If the IOC is going to give into corruption we could just have them back in Salt Lake.. at least we did an ok job after all the corruption.
 
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demosthenes

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Can we send all the people that think America is a shit hole to live in Sochi for the rest of their lives?

Place looks abysmal, wow.
 
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Zaph

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codswallop said:
It sure is. It seems like the selection committee are all too easily swayed by flashy presentations and promises. I don't know what rigour they have when selecting participants, but perhaps they need a detailed (or more detailed) plan of how they will actually achieve what they need to.

May as well have chosen Qatar at this point.
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The IOC is incredibly susceptible to pageantry and novelty. Everyone knows it.

When London bid for 2012, organisers event went so far as to make sure IOC cars never saw a red light.

Shit works, sadly.
 
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1.21Gigawatts

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The funny thing is that after the games, nobody will ever use the stuff they built specifically for the games. So they built some hotels for the games, they weren't finished in time and after the games nobody will ever use them again.
 
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KillerMan91

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Pedrito said:
2)No, it's pretty much the only suitable place in Russia. You need a major ski resort with a vertical drop of at least 800 metres for the downhill race. It's all about height, not temperature. Finland, for example, could never host the winter Olympics because they don't have mountains high enough.
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Well we made a shared bid (Helsinki) for 2006 olympics with Lillehammer (they would have handled the alpine skiing) but didn't get those. IOC still prefers cities and countries that can host every event close to each other.
 
Guileless

Guileless

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Best line I read, I think from the NYT: Putin likes skiing in Sochi, so Russia spends 50 billion to have the Olympics there so everyone else will also ski there.
 
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HP_Wuvcraft

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Bisnic said:
Why did they pick that city for the Olympics if they can't even have decent hotels, or even safe streets.

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Yeah, this isn't even funny.
 
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Zaph

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Some more tweets from journalists arriving. CNN have one of their 11 rooms booked. Think Putin is trying to tell the free press exactly what he thinks of them. http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-04/toilet-trouble-at-the-sochi-olympics.html

But it gets better. A Russian PR rep explained that famous image with the following:

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At the request of competition organizers it was decided to convert one of the toilets at the stadium into a storage cupboard (there are plenty of toilets but they needed more storage space), so they started clearing away the partition and the toilets. With all due respect, Steve photographed the ill-starred toilets after the partition, but not yet the toilets, had been removed. All the journalist needed to do was ask stadium workers exactly what he was seeing. All that journalists needed to do was call and ask us.
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http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-04/toilet-trouble-at-the-sochi-olympics.html

Doesn't really explain why people have found a few more though...
 
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sestrugen

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industrian said:
Perfectly normal across East Asia.

I still flush the paper in my apartment though. I ain't emptying that bin.
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Pretty normal in Latin America, Africa, SE Asia and the people saying that they would not clean it, have you heard of thrash cans? And usually the bins have a lid and they are cleaned hourly.

Also the facilities do seem rough and the corruption seems very rampant but to say that is not possible to live in those facilities, specially only for a few days, its just an exageration.
 
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Gamer @ Heart

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Reading about how disastrous Delhi was before the commonwealth games has made me feel a bit better that this won't be a disaster somehow. But who knows.
 
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linkboy

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sestrugen said:
Pretty normal in Latin America, Africa, SE Asia and the people saying that they would not clean it, have you heard of thrash cans? And usually the bins have a lid and they are cleaned hourly.

Also the facilities do seem rough and the corruption seems very rampant but to say that is not possible to live in those facilities, specially only for a few days, its just an exageration.
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I've lived in worse, get back to me when you're shitting in a burn barrel and you have to burn in. Not to mention living in a tent.

Ahh, the joys of Afghanistan.

The hotels in Sochi would be a godsend compared to that.

These Olympics are going to be a disaster.
 
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jay

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Watching people argue with ToxicAdam is entertaining. All you need to understand is he started at his conclusion that social media makes us all global whiners in real time and worked backwards.
 
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MechDX

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Dan Wetzel ‏@DanWetzel · 6h
To anyone in Sochi: I am now in possession of three light bulbs. Will trade for a door handle. This offer is real: pic.twitter.com/7AeesqDi8Y
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Yamauchi

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$50 billion budget

More than all previous Winter Games combined

I love Russia, but come on. This is too Putin even for Putin,
 
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Poltergust

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I'm... actually kind of worried now after seeing that Imgur album. With the immense volume of people that are going to be arriving and how shoddy everything is, there's a distinct possibility that someone is going to die or get seriously injured from falling into a hole, getting into a car accident due to the poor-quality roads, falling down the stairs, etc. =/
 
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DrEvil

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I wonder how the actual event venues are going to hold up. I shudder at the thought of a major power failure during one of the events, or some other construction-related mishap when it's at capacity.


For all the worries of terrorism, I'd be equally as worried of something falling apart on its own.
 
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shira

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Why do you all care so much about the conditions? It's called home-team advantage.

And in a few days all those dirty rooms will be overflowing with condoms and lube from the non-stop orgies.
 
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whytemyke

Honorary Canadian.
The good news for Russia is that they let terrorists in to bomb the city anyways, so now nobody will be able to tell the difference.

TERRORISTS LOSE! CITY ALREADY SUCKED!
 
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