Rio Olympics 2016 - Where the city runs green with bribery money and pool water

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If you thought you didn't want to live on this planet due to the last few weeks, the hatred looks like it's about to get even worse for you. Why? The Summer Olympics in Rio are about to be underway, of course. With the political turmoil and corruption going on in Brazil right now, what could possibly go wrong?

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Oh, boy, this could get interesting. The Olympic Village has been so well-constructed that the toilets are often blocked, wiring is exposed and water leaks are commonplace. The Australian Olympic teams and Hope Solo are among people that are refusing to go anywhere near there for fear of their health and safety.

The part you need to know about is how the mayor of Rio responded. With no sense of irony whatsover, he offered them a kangaroo to make them feel more at home at the Village. Because a kangaroo is going to fix the plumbing and electrical issues the place has.

This may or may not be a complete and utter shitshow, but it's something to definitely keep an eye on in the coming weeks.
 
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Jackass RN said:
In addition to high levels of viruses in the water, Rio is also playing host to CRE, a lovely bacteria that is effectively treatment resistant and kills ~50% of people who get a bloodstream infection.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...bacteria-at-rio-s-olympic-venues-top-beaches/
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One of the sentences in that, about competitors complaining about chunks of god-knows-what hitting boats and causing them to lose speed compared to others, just made me shake my head. I'm waiting for one of the windsurfers to be knocked out of the race when they hit a corpse floating in the bay.
 
Those glorious green swimming pools in Rio have been drained and refilled (in a rather uncommon move during the middle of the goddamn Olympics). It's hilarious to see all of the reasons why the pools became so discolored so quickly.

My personal favorite is that the water got "confused" because of the amount of hydrogen peroxide they put in the water.

It was revealed that 80 litres of hydrogen-peroxide was put in the pool on the day of the opening ceremony on August 5 – a chemical that should never be combined with chlorine, as any pool owner knows.

As a consequence, the electronic system that controls the amount of the chlorine in the water was "confused".

In the past week, several water players have complained about how much their eyes have stung during matches.

It was so bad one Australian men's player needed to have his eyes flushed out at halftime in the 10-8 loss to Serbia, although Australia's women's players said it was less of an issue in their 10-3 win over Brazil in their final pool match the next day.
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It's official: pool water has developed gender identity politics. The Olympic pools were obviously trying to identify as Ecto Cooler Hi-C.

Also here's a high-profile American Olympic athlete being robbed at gunpoint after his event. What a lovely, lovely Olympic spectacle. :story:
 
DerSandstrom said:
Those glorious green swimming pools in Rio have been drained and refilled (in a rather uncommon move during the middle of the goddamn Olympics). It's hilarious to see all of the reasons why the pools became so discolored so quickly.

My personal favorite is that the water got "confused" because of the amount of hydrogen peroxide they put in the water.



It's official: pool water has developed gender identity politics. The Olympic pools were obviously trying to identify as Ecto Cooler Hi-C.

Also here's a high-profile American Olympic athlete being robbed at gunpoint after his event. What a lovely, lovely Olympic spectacle. :story:
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I hope they didn't go double stupid and use lab-grade hydrogen peroxide in that, considering it's caustic and is actually explosive in vapor form.
 
So this thing where they're holding the other US guys for "questioning".

Is this "questioning" or is this "questioning"?
 
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