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    @CTVNews: Ready or not: Where #Rio stands 100 days before the 2016 Olympics begin http://ow.ly/4na8jP http://***********/CTVNews/status/725364205667405824/photo/1

    I don't think they'll be ready.
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    Originally posted by joecct View Post
    @CTVNews: Ready or not: Where #Rio stands 100 days before the 2016 Olympics begin http://ow.ly/4na8jP http://***********/CTVNews/status/725364205667405824/photo/1

    I don't think they'll be ready.
    Don't drink the water.
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    • #3
      Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

      I'm looking forward to seeing Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff running the marathon course as she tries to elude the police sent to arrest her.

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      • #4
        Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

        Originally posted by ShirtlessBob View Post
        Don't drink the water.

        Don't even swim in the water....

        Athletes might be sailing and swimming through raw sewage, ruining matches and landing in hospitals as a result.

        At first, Rio seemed to possess everything the International Olympic Committee could want: Otherworldly natural beauty and plenty of beaches and lakes for the aquatic sports. A willingness to host in the first place. Brazil also promised to clean up Rio’s bays and beaches in its Olympic bid, “setting a new standard of water quality preservation for the next generations.”

        There have been long-simmering suspicions that the city’s water is too dirty for competitions. Like many other fast-growing cities in middle-income countries, Rio only treats a small percentage of its sewage....

        Officials have already admitted they won’t meet their stated goal of treating 80 percent of the sewage that flows into the bay. It’s more like 65 percent, according to the most recent estimate.
        I've heard people say they'd swim through shit to get a gold medal, but did they have to take it so literally??


        (It is not for the indoor pools, there is swimming, sailing, rowing, offshore from those beautiful beaches.)
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          Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

          Heck, don't bike near it either: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/21/americ...apses-kills-2/

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          • #6
            Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

            Originally posted by French Rage View Post
            Good God. I saw the headline and thought, "gee that sucks." Then I saw it.

            Just put the games in Portland.
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            • #7
              Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

              Former futbol star Rivaldo has asked fans not to come to Brazil. The political turmoil, the violence and public health were already in crisis mode. Add in this Zika Virus epidemic and this is the opening sequence of the next post-Apocalyptic thriller from Hollywood.

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

                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                Just put the games in Portland.
                Maine? or Oregon?
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                "Beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin

                "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats

                "People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom

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                • #9
                  Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                  The subway system they were building to/from the Olympic Village for fans has stations that might not be complete by August. The portion of the Olympic bike path that juts out over the ocean collapsed, killing two passersby. The sewage issues, add in all those other things Rivaldo stated, and it just becomes readily apparent that these events should be awarded only to nations with the infrastructure and building codes and safety codes in place to support these sorts of events. Of course, such consideration will never be taken into place as it'll reduce the bidding price paid by the various cities and nations to the IOC. C'est la vie.
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                  • #10
                    Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                    Good horror movie premise: people from all over the world gather at point X, contract a terrible disease without knowing it, then scatter back home. Instant global pandemic.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      Good horror movie premise: people from all over the world gather at point X, contract a terrible disease without knowing it, then scatter back home. Instant global pandemic.
                      Olympics? Clancy did it, Rainbow Six.
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                      • #12
                        Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                        Better living through chemistry

                        http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/13...pics-2014.html
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                        1 granddaughter (EML 4/18)

                        ”Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
                        - Benjamin Franklin

                        Banned from the St. Lawrence University Facebook page - March 2016 (But I got better).

                        I want to live forever. So far, so good.

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                        • #13
                          Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                          Originally posted by joecct View Post
                          It's gonna really suck when we find out we're doing it too.
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                          • #14
                            Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                            cripes, Athens in 2004 didn't have nearly as much lining up to go wrong with the Games right before they happen.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              It's gonna really suck when we find out we're doing it too.
                              Have been since the late 70s. Logistics are somewhat different re direct and active government involvement, but yeah...late 70s.
                              I wish I am able to live long enough to do all the things I was attributed to.

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