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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Rio Olympics and the Zika Virus
 
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Ghost of Mussolini
Jun 26, 2011

Troutful posted:

Zika virus is way less scary than the other two major diseases spread by Aedes, yellow fever and dengue. The people who actually have to worry about this are women in countries with restrictive abortion laws.
So just like all of Latin America except for Cuba, coincidentally where the Olympics are being held?

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Ghost of Mussolini
Jun 26, 2011

Cliff Racer posted:

It could be that the unsold tickets are to events that people care less about. I don't think the summer Olympics have actually sold out in a long while.
It is usually this. The finals for sprinting, swimming, etc. are all sold out, but nobody other that the competitor's mothers are going to bother to turn out for the first round of the shot-put or whatever. When you hold this stuff in big venues (which you have to do to justify the large expenditure and cost overruns), you end up with low-tier elimination rounds of sports that aren't so popular at completely oversized venues.

e: tons of these tickets end up being given out to sponsors who then never use them and the like.

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