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I'm just praying for the residents and athletes to get out of this unscathed and back to better lives soon. I know it won't really happen for the Rio locals. 
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Also, while the torch relay was going through...Rio???...the other night, a group of teenagers literally stole the loving thing and held their own impromptu torch relay that was promptly captured on video. All accounts are that everyone involved had the living poo poo beaten out of them by police. Also, some of the streets on the new marathon course were not built up high enough and are likely to flood at high/elevated tides. Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Also (and a final one for now), people have already been caught using faked credentials to sneak into hotels and other buildings where athletes are being housed. In one case, a person with a fake Brazilian media credential who was wandering around the hotel housing the Brazilian men's soccer team was only stopped because the hotel staff thought he was acting weird. Either nobody bothered to check him before entering or he was just waved on in.
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Aug 1, 2016 06:47
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TNT has ordered a talk show for Charles Barkley called "The Race Card"
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Someone at the Onion wrote this, then deleted it. "nah, too easy" 
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That is one of the worst ideas in the history of television. Charles Barkley is like the most criticism proof person in sports but he is definitely gonna say something stupid and gross that makes everyone turn on him.
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Aug 1, 2016 14:52
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Ugh I hate when sitcoms make a spinoff of the quirky side character
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MourningView posted:That is one of the worst ideas in the history of television. Charles Barkley is like the most criticism proof person in sports but he is definitely gonna say something stupid and gross that makes everyone turn on him. Dude's political opinions are already terrible, we don't need more of them
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Gentleman, only one man can bridge the gap and heal the race divide tearing this country apart
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MourningView posted:That is one of the worst ideas in the history of television. Charles Barkley is like the most criticism proof person in sports but he is definitely gonna say something stupid and gross that makes everyone turn on him. At least he isn't hosting a golf show
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I'm friends on FB with someone who handles development for USOC, and she had been posting a whole bunch of "stop hating" whenever someone points out that Rio is a shitshow. Can't wait to see what she says when she gets back.
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exploding mummy posted:At least he isn't hosting a golf show Don't give them any ideas
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He already had a golf show.
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I hope rio has real problems and it isn't a month of my hotel wasn't that good during my free trip to the olympics aren't I brave and special articles like the Russia Winter Olympics were.
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I think there's a pretty good chance of Actually Bad Things happening to People We Care About and not just the usual "poor people were horribly exploited" stuff that always happens with the Olympics or World Cup or whatever any more
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Yeah Rio has very real, very major problems.
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The open water swim events are going to be held in literal sewage, so...
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Also why would you hope for real problems? 
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Someone make the Olympics disaster already
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Metapod posted:Also why would you hope for real problems? It's the only way the Olympics will either rotate between a couple permanent sites or better yet be canceled entirely
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Metapod posted:Also why would you hope for real problems? My hope is that the reporting is accurate and not self inflating personal essays on the way their broken shower represents the broken political system in Rio, the problems will be the problems regardless of my feelings. 
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The Olympics are an event that is, at this point, both enormously corrupt, and also infrequent enough that small problems with them are forgotten by the time the next one rolls around. Sochi was a hilarious shitshow but within the year it was pretty thoroughly sidelined by, well, everything else. The thinking goes, the only way you're going to enact real and permanent change in the mechanisms of an organization like the IOC and an institution like the Olympics is by something drastic and dramatic. Rio is looking like the most likely candidate in the immediate future for that kind of thing.
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Work Friend Keven posted:My hope is that the reporting is accurate and not self inflating personal essays on the way their broken shower represents the broken political system in Rio, the problems will be the problems regardless of my feelings. Did anyone actually do anything like this at Sochi? All I remember is some tweets of broken toilets or whatever Edit: which Petchesky thought were "hilarious" at the time morestuff fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Update: a Rio police officer has been arrested after he raped a firefighter at one of the Olympic sites.
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morestuff posted:Did anyone actually do anything like this at Sochi? All I remember is some tweets of broken toilets or whatever People did write about how the Sochi situation was the result of a hosed up political system and rampant cronyism with the building contracts, but that hardly seems like outlandish reporting.
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morestuff posted:Did anyone actually do anything like this at Sochi? All I remember is some tweets of broken toilets or whatever Inspector_666 posted:People did write about how the Sochi situation was the result of a hosed up political system and rampant cronyism with the building contracts, but that hardly seems like outlandish reporting. This, plus people have known for quite a while that Russia is pretty hosed up in a few ways. I can understand being tired of reporters writing puff pieces or "oh look how eloquently I write about the problems in [place]", but Rio is legitimately a war zone in places, and some of the pieces written during the 2014 World Cup only began to scratch the surface.
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I hadn't watched Real Sports in a long time, but they recently put up a full episode regarding the Olympics and I thought it was pretty good. It covered essentially three topics, how Rio is going to be a disaster, how Sochi was a huge waste of public money, and how China suppresses dissent and has terrible human rights violations. The overall arching theme was the corruption in the IOC, and how the Olympics are indirectly helping oppressive governments. I also learned that only China and Kazakhstan sent in bids for the 2022 Winter Olypmics. I guess the only thing crazier than Sochi holding winter Olympics is for Beijing to hold them. I'm sure there's a better place in China to hold the Winter Olympics, but what do I know. Either way, if you have access to HBO, I'd recommend it. You can see the literal poo poo that people get to swim in next week.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I also learned that only China and Kazakhstan sent in bids for the 2022 Winter Olypmics. I guess the only thing crazier than Sochi holding winter Olympics is for Beijing to hold them. I'm sure there's a better place in China to hold the Winter Olympics, but what do I know. A big reason for this was that literally nobody else wanted it. Poland and Sweden withdrew early bids because voters basically went nuts and passed strongly supported referendums rejecting the games.
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DJExile posted:A big reason for this was that literally nobody else wanted it. Poland and Sweden withdrew early bids because voters basically went nuts and passed strongly supported referendums rejecting the games. Yea, the Sweden part was covered early on in the Real Sports segment. There was a big push to withdraw because so many people see the IOC for the corrupt organization that it is. There was a brief talk at the end where someone suggested that the Olympics go to just one location, but then all the bribes would go away, so it likely won't happen. The FBI needs to take on the IOC like they did with FIFA.
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Bird in a Blender posted:The FBI needs to take on the IOC like they did with FIFA.
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Crazy Ted posted:The only way that is going to happen is if it turns out that the IOC was colossally stupid enough to route its bribe money through U.S. banks, which is what FIFA did. Lmfao I didn't know that
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Maybe a sting operation is needed where LA tries to get the Olympics and offers some bribes.
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Crazy Ted posted:The only way that is going to happen is if it turns out that the IOC was colossally stupid enough to route its bribe money through U.S. banks, which is what FIFA did. Yeah FIFA was all but begging the FBI to bust them. A first year law student likely could have prosecuted it.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I hadn't watched Real Sports in a long time Nothing to do with the present topic, but I only watch Real Sports when it's on after a boxing match or something else I happen to be watching on HBO. I don't ever actually seek it out, but I never feel like it was time wasted watching the show, even if it's a bunch of stories I really didn't give a poo poo about before watching.
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Grittybeard posted:Nothing to do with the present topic, but I only watch Real Sports when it's on after a boxing match or something else I happen to be watching on HBO. I don't ever actually seek it out, but I never feel like it was time wasted watching the show, even if it's a bunch of stories I really didn't give a poo poo about before watching. It's really an incredible show and I always kick myself for not watching it more. The story about the girl with no legs who turns out to be Nadia Comaneci's long lost sister is one of the wildest things ever.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Maybe a sting operation is needed where LA tries to get the Olympics and offers some bribes. They saved the Olympics in 1984 Looks like they'll have to do it again
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Vertical Lime posted:They saved the Olympics in 1984 Pretty good chance Russia boycotts/is banned from them again too
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Metapod posted:Lmfao I didn't know that Shaking My Damn Hhead
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