2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
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08-03-2016, 01:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-03-2016 02:14 PM by john.)
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2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
It is Olympics time again.
![]() ![]() Problems, problems as the games approach. Hopefully the naysayers will be proved wrong and the Olympics with be a success. ![]() ![]() Quote:The Rio Olympics haven’t even kicked off yet and there’s already a sense that they’re going to be a massive disaster. Things have gone far beyond the now-standard stories of Olympic village construction snafus into serious health and safety concerns. After a number of muggings and the entire security apparatus for the games being replaced last second, a segment of the internet has already started referring to the event as ‘The Apocalympics.’ ![]() Zika virus Quote:Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that makes about one in five infected people sick with rash, fever, joint pain, or pinkeye and has been linked to the birth defect microcephaly, a neurological condition in which a newborn child’s head is significantly smaller than normal. Zika can cause the muscle-weakening disease Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults. http://www.zika-news.com/link.php?url=ht...ign=buffer ![]() |
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08-04-2016, 05:07 PM
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RE: 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
There have been a couple of attempted assaults on torch bearers too. There's also a new subway line that's not likely to be completed in time.
Quote:(AP) — A $3 billion subway expansion built as one of the main Olympic legacy projects for Rio de Janeiro was overbilled by 25 percent, a report said Thursday. Corruption tied to the Olympics has made me look at the event as just another sports-oriented business. It's crazy how much debt countries take on to support it. Quote:RIO DE JANEIRO — How do Brazilians feel about their big Olympic moment? More: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/world/....html?_r=0 |
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08-04-2016, 05:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2016 05:50 PM by Tusk.)
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RE: 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
With world travel the way it is, how easy something can turn from epidemic to pandemic, I'm really surprised this is moving forward from all the dire reports of how harmful and toxic the environment is reported to being. I would think that countries would want to put travelers coming from Rio into some kind of isolation before being allowed to be introduced to the general population....
I think everyone has known the levels of corruption the organizing bodies of world sports like the Olympics and Fifa are...it's all about the cash at the cost of a county's economy and the blood and sweat of cheap labor.... I haven't watched the Olympics for ages |
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08-04-2016, 06:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2016 06:12 PM by john.)
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08-05-2016, 12:14 PM
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RE: 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
We're lucky to have the Rule of Law and the dedicated attention to infrastructure over the hundreds of year in the US.
Personal extra take.... I think it's exceedingly difficult for a country to have infrastructure improve as quickly as burgeoning populations in high birth-rate countries...although I suppose we managed it at some times of high immigration here (although we had many attrocious slums for immigrants in the late 1800s here too in those periods |
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08-06-2016, 11:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-06-2016 11:48 PM by john.)
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RE: 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
A Google project Rio: Beyond the Map. "Step inside the unexpected world of the favelas".
360* panning ability once you get on the motorcyles. ![]() https://beyondthemap.withgoogle.com/en-us/ |
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