Chinese athletes try to fix shower curtain in Olympic Village

[Freaka]

[QUOTE=TestECull;50804027]I wouldn't care. My future health is more important than a medal that's just gonna collect dust on my mantlepiece behind a sea of 1/35th tank models.

I don't care how much training I've done, I don't care if it's the only shot. I'm not risking getting shot by an off-duty cop over $120 and a shitty rental car, or for the damn olympic villiage to collapse under my feet, or to catch god only knows what from that river. There's a point where it's too much and, for me, there's nothing that would convince me to stay in the competition if it's held where it's going to be held.[/QUOTE]

Dumb for you to say this when you're most likely not even out excersising. These people participating have trained for 10+ years to attend this. They're not going to stop because it's a shitfest unfortunately. They don't care about their future health because the chance of getting permanently I'll after this olympics is still small.

[J.C.DentonUNATCO]

If they are foolhardy enough to attend the Rio olympics after multiple people have been robbed, a dock collapsed, and the waters are infested with viruses, oh well. It's their health or life in the case of a violent mugging.

But they're also supporting and enabling this shit, as is anyone buying a ticket to it. Declining to attend the Olympics would make a bigger statement about Brazil, and the Olympic's handling of the situation and choosing of the country itself. But nope gotta get the gold I guess.

[BryBreadmin]

[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;50805429]If they are foolhardy enough to attend the Rio olympics after multiple people have been robbed, a dock collapsed, and the waters are infested with viruses, oh well. It's their health or life in the case of a violent mugging.

But they're also supporting and enabling this shit, as is anyone buying a ticket to it. Declining to attend the Olympics would make a bigger statement about Brazil, and the Olympic's handling of the situation and choosing of the country itself. But nope gotta get the gold I guess.[/QUOTE]

Let's not pretend like the athletes are the real perpetrators here or something. The blame lies with the Olympic committee and the Brazilian government.

Again, it's much easier to say "don't go, make a statment~~" when you haven't trained your entire life for this [I]one shot at glory[/I]. The athletes competing are victims in this whole situation; don't be an ass and try to spin that differently.

[Hiccuper]

I mean if they don't have basic stuff like this in the Olympic village, then they definitely haven't got the ridiculous supply of condoms they usually have.

There's gonna be some super babies born 9 months down the line.

[Omali]

[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;50802210]I have a feeling Tokyo is going to pull out all the stops to make 2020 better now that Rio has gone and tarnished the name.[/QUOTE]

It helps when the Olympics aren't held in a country on the brink of falling apart.

[CruelAddict]

how many chinese do you need to fix a shower curtain?

[sp]doesn't matter, the curtain is made in china anyway[/sp]

[bunguer]

Open water sports are the most worrisome due to the crappy water quality, the rest of the sports should be fine for most athletes, statistically speaking - the risk is probably worth it if you've trained all your life.

[proboardslol]

I wonder if the poor image that the Olympics are giving Rio will affect their tourism in years to come. I don't think of Rio as an exotic beautiful place now as much as I think of it as a slum

[Jimesu_Evil]

[QUOTE=proboardslol;50806205]I wonder if the poor image that the Olympics are giving Rio will affect their tourism in years to come.[/QUOTE]

Pretty sure it will. The whole world is watching right now, and all we're seeing is shit.

[Netsc]

inb4 the stadium collapses and thousands die

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[fruxodaily]

[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;50802210]I have a feeling Tokyo is going to pull out all the stops to make 2020 better now that Rio has gone and tarnished the name.[/QUOTE]

the 2020 games will be better because it's Japan, you're guaranteed stability in a nation that doesn't have half their population below the poverty line

[Ridge]

At least they don't have 5 toilets facing each other in one room (that we know of yet).