rio 2016 olympic games

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Whoever, is in agreement with who, have lost the plot.

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^^ LOLOLOL Wow.

We have the right to talk about WHATEVER we want as long as it doesn't go against site rules. Behind the scenes of the games is important to talk about, especially when plenty of it makes news every Olympics! I suggest you keep your personal attacks to yourself next time. They are rude and not needed.

Anyway, an IOC official was apparently arrested for scalping Olympics tickets recently:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37107450

Perhaps its a misunderstanding, we shall see. I doubt its some mistake. IOC is corrupt and needs to be changed a lot.

@empathy: i don't even know what you're talking about or trying to say. brazil is not a poor country. it's a disorganized country, with very corrupt politics, where the typical way of doing business with the government involves money disappearing and never being seen by the average citizen. and rio is a city, thousands of miles away from the amazon

The story about those US swimmers who claimed to be robbed is becoming pretty weird. The story from the Brazilian side emerging is that one or more of the swimmers committed vandalism at a gas station rest room and that the station security guards forced them to pay for the damages at gunpoint. So it would be robbery of sorts, but the vandalism part was left out of the swimmers story. There supposedly is CCTV footage of the damage and a swimmer fighting with a attendent. We'll see. Interesting that no one involved, swimmers or station called police. It is all media exposure.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-swimmer-fought-security-guard-night-alleged-robbery/story?id=41481840

Oh and the lastest of olympics stuff from the BBC showing up on my facebook.


Apparently the world is utterly outraged that a couple German sisters who got 81st and 82nd place in a running marathon held hands crossing the finish line. I mean really?

lol it sounds like your earlier comment really was spot on, sweetleaf

What kind of an idiot would vandalize a bathroom?

Sheer idiocy!

I mean...they're representing their country. They've won medals

It's just sheer stupidity, all around.

They would love to see the inside of a Brazilian jail..

i still think that the choice of location for the olympics this year was a bad idea and probably fishy, and that the repercussions overall won't be good (for most everybody involved, except maybe contractors and such), but to be honest it seems like it's turning out to be not nearly as bad as i expected. more like a collection of minor miscellaneous wtf moments (related and unrelated to the organization of the event itself) than any kind of generalized disaster

one thing i have to say i find confusing is the whole zika paranoia. isn't it only dangerous for pregnant women? there are plenty of other actual concerns (violence, pollution, etc) but most everybody seems to zero in on that one. it sounds almost like tinfoil hat gone mainstream

If it was not so dangourous I would let swimmers have thier hometown parades. But instead of of American flags and thier medals I would have floats with posters from the film "The Ugly American".

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