After claiming structural problems and refusing to enter the Olympic Village on Sunday, the Australian committee changed the tone and highlighted an evolution in terms of the official residence on Monday. At a news conference at the Rio 2016 Olympic Park, the team leader, Kitty Chiller, said there have been improvements in the building for the country in the last 24 hours, it is expected that the delegation may move to the village on Wed market. She said, however, that the country is having a lot of extra expenses with the provisional hotel accommodation and other details like cleaning the official rooms. - It's been a very positive day. We had several Australian touring the village today with smiles on their faces because we had a great progress in the past 24 hours. Up to 15h, three floors were ready. Three other floors should be ready tonight. Australia will occupy 15 floors in the building 23. At this time tomorrow, we hope that the whole building is ready ... It was fantastic progress today. The works done were very good. They made a great effort and we are very pleased with it. According to our plan, we will be ready to move on Wednesday - Kitty said. Collective of Australia in the village of Rio 2016 athletes (Photo: Gustavo Rotstein) Head of the Australian team, Kitty Chiller (yellow), praised the progress the conditions (Photo: Gustavo Rotstein) Controversies involving the Australian committee began on Sunday when the delegation refused to take the Olympic Village claiming structural failure in the building for the country, called "uninhabitable". According to the responsible staff, problems were found in plumbing systems, gas and electricity. The weather was even more uncomfortable after the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes tried to minimize the problems and said the Olympic Village of the city is more beautiful than Sydney. The politician also said in a relaxed tone that put kangaroos to help make Australians to feel "at home". The answer came by communications director, Tancred, who said they did not need kangaroos, but plumbers to solve the "lakes" found in the building. In the second, the tone adopted by Kitty was milder. The ruling also said that he will meet with the mayor this week. - The mayor of Rio and I have a meeting on Wednesday. I believe there will be a ceremony of the keys and we will prepare a gift for the mayor too. 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They are still having cleaning costs and other details at the official residence of the athletes. Something that, according to Kitty, is not a concern at this time. - No one ever volunteered to pay for things, is not it? (Laughs) First we did was to make sure that the preparation of the athletes was not impaired in any way. The staff will see today that the accommodation they are are well suited and is in a building officiates. I talked to some teams that are coming and was a major premise have accommodation space for them what we have, and also transport, food, medical aid and all that providenciaríamos in the village. (About refund), we will solve it later. I'm just worried about leaving everything pronto.- said Chiller. Dirt in the building hall receiving Australians in the Olympic Village of 2016 (Photo: GloboEsporte.com) Dirt in the building hall receiving Australians in the Olympic Village of 2016 (Photo: GloboEsporte.com) According to the Rio 2016, there will be a joint effort between the organization of the Games and the city to further address the issue of spending by Australians. Despite the disappointment on arrival at Rio de Janeiro, the team leader expressed confidence that the problem will be selected and still did praise the Olympic Village in Rio. - In the last two years I was saying that this was the best Villa of the six I've ever been. And he went on to say it will be when the problems pointed out are corrected. Other delegations with problems The delegation of Australia was the only one so far who refused to enter the village. However, other countries have also complained about the conditions. According to the very head of the Australian delegation also had problems the delegations of Brazil, Britain, New Zealand, Japan, Belgium, Holland and Germany. According to the newspaper "La Gazzetta dello Sport", the Italians also had problems and hired workers themselves to make adjustments. The Argentine committee was another who criticized the official residence of the athletes. According to the organization of Rio 2016, about 600 workers working in emergency regime in the Olympic Village to solve the structural problems. The expectation is that the repairs are completed until next Thursday, a week before the Games begin.
