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2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

Well I expect the Japanese to have 2020 Tokyo under control compared to thisn
 
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walrus said:
If a country with oil dollars can't make it work how much longer will Olympics keep happening. The graft behind the scenes must be unreal.
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They can go on. Just stop swindling these sh*thole third-world and developing countries out of billions of dollars that should be spent improving the lives of their citizens, instead of hosting global sporting events. There is absolutely no excuse for building a new venue for every fcking event. None. Other than the sheer greed of the IOC and the billionaire class that lines their pockets.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Other than the sheer greed of the IOC and the billionaire class that lines their pockets.
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That's all the IOC is. A way for billionaires in western countries to bribe millionaires in third world countries to steal financial transfers from western middle class taxpayers intended for third world indigent populations.

Replace a couple nouns and the same holds true for international finance.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
What's the over/under for kidnappings in Rio in August?
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We have Brazilian friends who are letting their daughter do semester abroad in Turkey next year. They won't go to Rio because "it isn't safe."
 
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So I gotta ask, has Rio gotten that much worse since the World Cup 2 years ago, or is it just that that was spread over the whole country while the Olympics are concentrated in and around the city? Because that seemed to have gone off relatively smoothly.
 
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unofan said:
So I gotta ask, has Rio gotten that much worse since the World Cup 2 years ago, or is it just that that was spread over the whole country while the Olympics are concentrated in and around the city? Because that seemed to have gone off relatively smoothly.
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I think they already had a fairly developed soccer infrastructure.

The other thing is even if the corruption was the same for both, it's the second one where you'll get the real sting in the tail for all those construction dollars that magically vanished.

Also, they've been sliding into political chaos for the whole time, so yeah it's getting worse. They had a functioning government 2 years ago for one thing. Now everybody's either in jail or scrambling to put the other guy in jail before they go to jail.

Finally, there are fewer than 1000 athletes at the World Cup. The Summer Olympics are ten simultaneous World Cups.
 
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unofan said:
So I gotta ask, has Rio gotten that much worse since the World Cup 2 years ago, or is it just that that was spread over the whole country while the Olympics are concentrated in and around the city? Because that seemed to have gone off relatively smoothly.
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It has gotten much worse. The president wanted to put a stop to the corruption so they ousted her and put someone in charge that will keep the spice flowing. As a result the country has sunk into an economic depression (or hell hole to be accurate) with the poor taking it on the chin while they live in the shadow of the fabulous wealth the World Cup and Olympic Games created. Mix together a police force that hasn't been paid and drug lords that act with impunity and you get a volatile mess. The spotlight of the Olympics takes what would be just another problem in the third-world and places it front and center for the world to see.
 
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Pull the fire alarm, clear the building and all your stuff is gone when you come back. It appears everything in Brazil is a setup to steal your stuff.
 
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walrus said:
Pull the fire alarm, clear the building and all your stuff is gone when you come back. It appears everything in Brazil is a setup to steal your stuff.
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The residents have finally caught up with the sponsors.
 
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