2016 Summer Olympics

[JLives]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/sport/rio ... index.html

Rio de Janeiro (CNN)The Olympic Games are 31 days away -- and Rio de Janeiro is in crisis.

Violence is on the rise, and police officers are at loggerheads with the Rio state government after claiming they've not been paid for months.
The message from police to tourists is clear: We won't be able to protect you.
The state's police officers vented their anger Monday with a sign saying, "Welcome to Hell," outside Rio's main airport. "Police and firefighters don't get paid, whoever comes to Rio de Janeiro will not be safe," the sign said.

An Australian athlete was mugged close to her hotel last month, and fears over the Zika virus have led several elite athletes, including the world's top golfer, to pull out.
And on Tuesday, a group of Brazilian scientists announced it had detected a drug-resistant bacteria growing off the shores of some of Rio's most iconic beaches.

It sounds like they should seriously consider scrapping this event or moving it and rescheduling. What a gong show.

[GordonH]

IOC get the _____ off your arses, actually protect athletes & visitors. Rio games have been joke from day 1 and its just getting worse, shutdown these games.

Added later: IOC does not give a damn about either athletes or visitors, just almighty $$$$

[GordonH]

Add other issue to growing list of problems.
http://www.castanet.net/news/World/1714 ... n-shambles

[GordonH]

As many of my friends & family have told me, don't take something you are not willing to have stolen. Not going to be any different with the Olympic's.
http://www.castanet.net/news/Rio-2016/1 ... bed-in-Rio

IOC is doing a great job.... lol

[the truth]

what a mess these rio games are looking like they will turn out to be-hope not

[ferri]

Don't go under water

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#172073

that's going to be interesting for some of the water sports. yuck.

[Nasturtium]

[Barney Google]

Don't go under water

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#172073

that's going to be interesting for some of the water sports. yuck.

Nothing like trying to achieve an Olympic medal when you are faced to earn it by performing on or in poop soup!

[the truth]

no thank you

[GordonH]

Stay in the boat:
canoe slalom, canoe sprint, all rowing sports..... hmm marathon swim outdoors (no boat)

[GordonH]

impo each & every member IOC board should be forced to swim in all of venues deemed hazardous to ones health, if they aren't willing then athletes should not be put in harms way either.

As I see it IOC is as bad if not worst as FIFA.

[Barney Google]

I wonder how many IOC board members are even going to actually show up.
Let's see how many of them put their BIG girl panties on and face the poopy waters,
the garbage, the poverty, the violence and the menacing insects in person.

[the truth]

imo the summer olympics should always be held in greece

[ferri]

i thought of this thread as soon as i saw this cartoon.

[Barney Google]

'This is a shame!' Filthy waters raise ire ahead of Rio Olympics

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/rio-olympi ... -1.3704804




Sewage, floating garbage, under surface garbage, floating dead bodies (animal and human)...

I love it and..."The best advice they've been given: Keep your mouth closed."