Police arrest IOC exec for allegedly scalping Rio tickets

[MaximLaHaxim]

[url]http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/patrick-hickey-ioc-scalping-1.372283[/url]

[quote]Brazilian police arrested a member of the IOC's executive board, Ireland's Patrick Hickey, in his hotel in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday in connection with an investigation into ticket scalping at the Olympics, a spokesman said.[/quote]

[OmniConsUme]

It fucking starts.

[joshthesmith]

Trying to scrape every penny they can out of the Olympics, congrats for making it a mess!

Proud that GB is 2nd so far tho, I was happy when we were 11th

[BlackMageMari]

An embarrassment to the country but a great start to sorting out the IOC I think. I hope they get him for everything he's got. A disgrace, can only be a disgrace.

EDIT: I may as well [URL="http://jasonomahony.ie/an-occasional-guide-to-irish-politics-the-scandal/"]link this now, 'tis how all scandals go in Ireland. Sure I think you'll all understand.[/URL]

[MaximLaHaxim]

They better fine this guy big time.

[Zakk]

It's going to be so great to see Tokyo in 2020. The last few olympics have been total train wrecks. Beijing, Russia, Rio? All awful.
Time to let the great empire show us how it's done

[Maadz]

[QUOTE=ZakkShock;50906881]It's going to be so great to see Tokyo in 2020. The last few olympics have been total train wrecks. Beijing, Russia, Rio? All awful.
Time to let the great empire show us how it's done[/QUOTE]

what about london

[Riller]

[QUOTE=ZakkShock;50906881]It's going to be so great to see Tokyo in 2020. The last few olympics have been total train wrecks. Beijing, Russia, Rio? All awful.
Time to let the great empire show us how it's done[/QUOTE]

Beijing was pretty good, so was London. Only Sochi and Rio have been shitshows.

[ElectronicG19]

[QUOTE=ZakkShock;50906881]It's going to be so great to see Tokyo in 2020. The last few olympics have been total train wrecks. [B]Beijing, Russia, Rio?[/B] All awful.
Time to let the great empire show us how it's done[/QUOTE]
so you leave out the most recent summer olympics before rio, because it was good and didnt fit your point? nice

[Reagy]

[QUOTE=ZakkShock;50906881]It's going to be so great to see Tokyo in 2020. The last few olympics have been total train wrecks. Beijing, Russia, Rio? All awful.
Time to let the great empire show us how it's done[/QUOTE]

Beijing was actually handled really well, they even did an effective effort to cut down on their pollution while the event ran unlike Rio so you can't really say it was bad.
Plus it didn't result in them bankrupting the city to pull the event, Rio is in a whole different league when comparing to the others, it's the worst of the worst.