So what happens when you try to hold an event on the scale of the Olympics in a 3rd world country?
1st thing you do is all but ban the Russians
2nd thing is you offer the Zika Virus to everyone including the spectators
3rd thing you do is have the professional golfers say GFY we ain't coming
And then you have this while the opening is still 10 days away:
The beleaguered Rio Olympics took another hit Sunday when the Australian Olympic Committee announced its athletes would not be moving into the Olympic Village due to 'unlivable' conditions.
"From what we've seen," said a spokesman from the AOC, "you wouldn't put people in there yet."
Reps from the AOC have been putting the rooms through "stress tests" to see if the newly built facilities could handle an influx of tenants. It's clear they couldn't.
"We decided to do a "stress test" where taps and toilets were simultaneously turned on in apartments on several floors to see if the system could cope once the athletes are in-house,"AOC chef de mission Kitty Chiller told the Sydney Morning Herald. "The system failed. Water came down walls, there was a strong smell of gas in some apartments and there was "shorting" in the electrical wiring. "
In addition, blocked toilets, leaking pipes (some in areas with electrical wiring), a lack of light fixtures in stairwells and "dirty floors in need of a massive clean" have been identified as problems.
