Edgar posted:

Man this makes salt lake city winter Olympics look much better. At least we still use our poo poo we built.

pistolshit posted:

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

Other good things form the Salt Lake Winter Olympics: non-dangerous water, flush toilets.

Cthulu Carl posted:

I really want that gun in the tank sign.

I have no idea what it means, but I want it.

JoeyJoJoJr Shabadoo posted:

"Don't drive off with the gas pump still in your tank (ie attached to your car)"

Russian has angry and violent words for every normal, non violent thing.

Lawman 0 posted:

reminder to everyone itt that sochi has a sub-tropical climate.

JoeyJoJoJr Shabadoo posted:

"Don't drive off with the gas pump still in your tank (ie attached to your car)"

Russian has angry and violent words for every normal, non violent thing.

SmokaDustbowl posted:

don't they have a refrigerated warehouse full of snow?

Ugly In The Morning posted:

Haha, like they would manage to get their hands on heroin.

Rexicon1 posted:

I really hope the opening ceremonies for the Olympics is just one rosy cheeked 60 something Russian man explaining the history of Russia at a table as he gets progressively more drunk. I'd be an honest representation of modern Russia at least

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

front row seat to another classic winter event

Cthulu Carl posted:

I really want that gun in the tank sign.

I have no idea what it means, but I want it.

Cthulu Carl posted:

I really want that gun in the tank sign.

I have no idea what it means, but I want it.

redshirt posted:

How the hell did Russia convince the IOC they could hold the winter olympics?

I'm assuming massive bribes, but is there a technical reason?

Seoinin posted:

athletes competing in the biathlon are handed surplus AK47s by some nervous guy in a van.

Three Olives posted:

So there is totally going to be at least an attempted terrorist attack on this thing, right?

Three Olives posted:

So there is totally going to be at least an attempted terrorist attack on this thing, right?

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

Three Olives posted:

So there is totally going to be at least an attempted terrorist attack on this thing, right? Apparently they still have to sell about 1/3rd of the tickets to it.

Seoinin posted:

why bother

Dusseldorf posted:

Well the Russians are spending more than 2 billion to stop one so the threat already caused an economic terrorist attack.

Edit: An Infographic!

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A stray dog inside the hotel, building dust everywhere and debris scattered all around. That's what some Olympic-accredited visitors have found on arrival in the mountains above Sochi.

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Joerg Reuter, a German who is working at his fifth Olympics for the European Pressphoto Agency, was one of the unlucky guests when he arrived on Jan. 19. After seeing several unacceptable rooms, including the one with the dog, he was forced to travel back down to the coast to find a place to sleep.

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"The outdoor area and floors/staircase/elevator inside were still under construction and completely dirty," Reuter wrote, adding that the room he was shown "had no light in the main room, the water out of the tap was yellow/brown, the air conditioning, TV, kitchenware were all not working ... Beside this the room was totally dirty and everywhere covered with dust."

The next room was worse.

"In some rooms you actually saw that there are still the construction workers sleeping and living," he wrote.

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Almost every room is missing something: lightbulbs, TVs, lamps, chairs, curtains, wifi, heat, hot water. Shower curtains are a valuable piece of the future black market here. (One American photographer was simply told, “You will not get a shower curtain.”)

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Hotel reservations are lost, then found, if you’re lucky. German photographer Joerg Reuter arrived in the mountains and found the first room offered to him to be full of construction debris, with yellow-brown water and appliances that didn’t work.

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(They are reportedly now killing the numerous stray dogs here, which makes every adorable mutt you see the hero of a Disney movie, directed by Quentin Tarantino. At a press conference Tuesday, Sochi 2014 spokeswoman Alexandra Kosterina said “There is a special service that catches the stray dogs and this, as far as I know, they have a special shelter for the stray dogs, and make a medical examination of them. Like pest control.” It was not comforting.)

But the hotels are where the Russian Games are visibly straining at the seams. In the Ekaterininsky Kvartal hotel, the elevator is broken and the stairway is unlit, with stairs of varying and unpredictable heights.

Outside the Chistya Prudy, there is a bag of concrete in a palm tree, leaking grey down the trunk. Inside, some of the electrical outlets are just plates screwed into drywall.

Sports Illustrated’s Brian Cazeneuve had to clamber through a window to get out of his hotel on Tuesday morning, since the doors were all unexpectedly locked. Chris Stevenson of Sun Media was without electricity for the first day.

My Postmedia colleague Cam Cole’s bathtub came loose from the wall, and therefore rocks like a ship. He has a shower curtain, though. In the Rosa Khutor section of the mountains, Stacy St. Clair of the Chicago Tribune was told by the front desk that if the water worked, “do not use on your face because it contains something very dangerous.” When it did come out of the tap, it looked like a lot like cloudy urine.

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Oh, and one journalist in the Omega hotel complex had to refuse a colleague’s request to stay a night in the second twin bed because … well, there’s no easy way to say this, but when the first journalist arrived, someone had left an indeterminate amount of semen on the sheets of the second bed, and those sheets had been taken away for cleaning, and hadn’t come back.

Dusseldorf posted:

Well the Russians are spending more than 2 billion to stop one so the threat already caused an economic terrorist attack.

Edit: An Infographic!

Three Olives posted:

I kind of want to visit one of these hotels. I mean not stay there but just see the trainwreck first hand.