Study: Rio Olympics Will Expose Athletes To Antibiotics-Resistant Super Bacteria
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this ? needs to be cancelled
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LeBron said ? that lol
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Yeahhhhhh...ima need them to cancel this ? ..
I fear there will be a terrorist attack there and the fallout from that is gonna lead to me being drafted -
Bent Flyvbjerg and two other researchers from the business school at Oxford University published a study concluding that Rio de Janeiro spent $4.6 billion to put on the Olympics, $1.6 billion more than their $3 billion budget, good for a 51 percent overshoot. This is less than the usual cost to put on a Summer Olympics (the last six have cost an average of $8.9 billion) and far less than the furthest any city has gone over budget (Montreal went 720 percent over in 1976).
Http://deadspin.com/study-the-rio-olympics-went-1-6-billion-over-budget-1783310108 -
Smokey Tha Bandit wrote: »this ? needs to be cancelled
on 2nd thought, nevermind. I hope Durant catches zika... ? -
this ? might cause a world outbreak if folks catch those diseases and bring them home
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This week’s scheduled move-in for the Olympic athletes’ village in Brazil fell flat, as the Australian delegation refused to enter the facilities due to serious issues with plumbing and fire safety.
That’s according to the Sydney Morning Herald, which cites the AOC claiming the Australian athletes arrived today intending to check into their rooms, only to find them “uninhabitable.” The Herald claims the Great Britain and New Zealand delegations found themselves in the same spot upon arrival this weekend.
The Australians discovered water flowing down the walls upon attempting to flush toilets, a strong smell of gas, and exposed wiring. The team is currently staying in hotels to await their accommodations for the Games. -
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This ? is a ? disaster
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Once NBC backs out, they'll stop it. Shame NBC gives less ? than the IOC.
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New Zealand MMA fighter Jason Lee says men in police uniforms kidnapped him in Rio de Janeiro, forcing the jiu-jitsu specialist to withdraw money from two ATMs and hand it over, or be be arrested.
That’s according to the New Zealand Herald, citing Lee’s social media posts:
On Facebook, Lee wrote “yesterday I got kidnapped in Brazil.” Lee said he was kidnapped by people in police uniforms, “not by some random people with guns.”
He added “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.
“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 absolute ? on a daily basis. This place is well and truly f***ked in every sense of the word imaginable.”
Lee appears to have been living in Brazil long enough to integrate himself into a jiu-jitsu gym; his YouTube page has videos as recent as this week featuring his fellow fighters. The Olympics begin in less than two weeks; Rio police are already warning visitors that they are not safe. -
If the damn police saying you're not safe why even go there
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Yea cause the police aren't even being paid lol. That's why they're robbing dudes. Brazil seems to be hell on Earth right now
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This will be interesting.....
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Opening ceremony would have me on edge as an athlete. That's a good chance to murder a lot of people
But like I said, I don't think a group would do something like that because of all the countries involved and the wrath from all of them would be something to avoid -
I don't think Isis would give a ?
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infamous114 wrote: »Yea cause the police aren't even being paid lol. That's why they're robbing dudes. Brazil seems to be hell on Earth right now
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Athletes are arriving in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics, and have been greeted at the Athletes’ Village with gas leaks, power outages, and “a small fire.” The Australian Olympic Committee already declared the Village “uninhabitable”, and according to The Guardian, 19 of the 31 apartment towers (all of which are 17 stories tall) that comprise the Village have not passed safety tests. The list of problems is oddly reminiscent of Sochi:
Close to 10% of the competitors have already arrived in Brazil and many are housed in the village, though the shoddy conditions – which include flooded floors, broken elevators, mould and holes in the ceiling – have shocked some team managers, athletes and volunteers.
Stress tests were never completed on most of the buildings because of delays in the connection of gas and electric lines. An Olympics spokesperson tried to claim only five percent of the rooms were impacted; she later admitted that less than half of towers have been approved for occupation. In the meantime, the teams that have arrived are seeking other accommodations, and may ask to be reimbursed for their trouble:
The organisers promise to resolve the problems by Thursday, but in the interim the Australian team has decided to temporarily rehouse its athletes. The Dutch and Italian teams have also complained and hinted that there may be demands for compensation.
The towers cost a shade under $1 billion to construct, and the construction firm planned to sell the apartments after the Olympics concluded. However, the Brazilian economy is in the toilet (the Brazilian real has fallen 20 percent over the last year), and less than 10 percent of the apartments have been successfully pre-sold.
The Italian team has come up with a rather creative solution to their uncompleted rooms, and have contracted out workers on their own to finish up construction -
We already knew the Olympic athletes’ village in Rio was a mess, but now we’ve jumped from stories about uninhabitable rooms and failed safety inspections and into allegations of sabotage.
Diego Gusman, an Argentinian Olympics official in Rio, told La Nacion that he believes the rooms his athletes are staying in have been sabotaged. According to La Nacion, it is the state of the plumbing that has arched Gusman’s brow (via Google Translate):
“There were water leaks in the walls, ceiling were things done on the run and with poor quality materials, but we also believe that there was some sabotage because how do you explain if that would cement blocks within the plumbing? it’s a mess and failures are repeated throughout the Villa.”
La Nacion also reports that Gusman has reserved some housing outside of the village for his athletes to stay in, should their current accommodations not be fixed up in time for the games. -
Chi-Town Bully wrote: »I don't think Isis would give a ?
ISIS ain't dumb though they would get fired on until nothing left -
this ? might cause a world outbreak if folks catch those diseases and bring them home
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Have to seriously think about this causing a zombie outbreak
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Nothing good is going to come from this bc this event should have been cancelled. After seeing how this Rio Olympic debacle went down, I wonder if requests by cities to be the Olympic host city have increased or decreased based upon previous requests.
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Chinese athlete caught gastrointestinal grift earlier this week after arriving in Rio de Janeiro to compete in the 110-meter hurdles event, got his luggage robbed
