EPTRio De Janeiro Gets the Olympics! - Page 8
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LegalLord
United Kingdom13775 Posts
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada16711 Posts
On August 02 2016 07:53 Kevin_Sorbo wrote: This whole ordeal is so sad. I hope the Olympics can be a respectable event once again. I have fond memories of the Olympics, like the time when a girl living down my street won 2 gold medals at Lillehammer or when Ali lit the olympic flame in Atlanta...(hell I was so mad in 1998 (and still am tbh) when the canadian coach left Wayne fucking Gretzky on the bench for the shootout) now the memories I have from the Olympics are the 50 billion dollars Putin spent to hold a 2 week party in a city that has since been forgotten, or the fact that China keeps hosting the Olympics without giving a fuck about human rights... it just exposes the joke of a fraud that the IOC actually is. the olympics and the IOC have always been bullshit. in the 1988 olympics every male in the 100m sprint went on to get busted for steroid use. in the immortal words of sam jackson : "the IOC is as crooked as a barrel of snakes". Wayne was not much of a scorer late in his career and he never was that great on breakaways and penalty shots. They really missed Mario Lemieux for that shootout. He was unstoppable on penalty shots and he had Hasek's # his entire career. Canada got outplayed for much of that game against the Czech Republic. Its become an urban legend that somehow Hasek "stole the game". He didn't. Canada deserved to lose. | ||
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Kevin_Sorbo
Canada3217 Posts
On August 02 2016 08:06 LegalLord wrote: Russia's Olympic event was used as an infrastructure project to expand Sochi into a hub city in the area. While I don't know if you can say it was worth the cost, the city has only been forgotten by people who don't care about internal Russian politics in the first place. this is an article about 2016 Sotchi. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2941216/Extraordinary-images-Vladimir-Putin-s-Sochi-Olympic-park-lying-desolate-abandoned.html it is now called the ''perfect museum of corruption'' | ||
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LegalLord
United Kingdom13775 Posts
On August 02 2016 09:13 Kevin_Sorbo wrote: this is an article about 2016 Sotchi. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2941216/Extraordinary-images-Vladimir-Putin-s-Sochi-Olympic-park-lying-desolate-abandoned.html it is now called the ''perfect museum of corruption'' http://rbth.com/society/2015/02/06/a_year_after_the_olympics_what_does_sochi_look_like_now_43481.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/sports/olympics/photos-sochi-russia-a-year-after-the-games.html?_r=0# Plenty of sporting and political events in Sochi. But the "ghost town" story is the fancier story to tell of course. | ||
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Kevin_Sorbo
Canada3217 Posts
The NY times article even states the Sotchi arena is now the main hockey arena in Russia. Like wtf? Are people from Moscow taking a week long train trip to the games? | ||
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LegalLord
United Kingdom13775 Posts
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Kevin_Sorbo
Canada3217 Posts
On August 02 2016 09:48 LegalLord wrote: Meh, if you want to look at half-truths and convince yourself that $50 billion were wasted, be my guest. There was certainly some waste but your assertion that the city is a ghost town is just plain wrong. yeah ok Researcher Dr Martin Mller, of the University of Birmingham, said: “The main legacy of the Games is oversized infrastructure at inflated prices, paid for almost exclusively by the public. “While this applies to many mega events elsewhere - particularly in developing economies - the extent of expenditure and underutilisation in Russia is unparalleled.” He added: “Russia’s two major goals in hosting the Games were to catapult Sochi into the same league of world class winter sports resorts as Zermatt, Vail and Whistler, and to present to the outside world a new face of Russia as an open, modern and attractive country. “The sobering reality is they have failed miserably on both counts.” The resort is now hugely overdeveloped for its current levels of occupancy, the report said, and hotels are struggling to survive. Sporting venues are underused and the main rail line carries just six trains a day in each direction. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/how-sochi-winter-olympics-landed-6154883 | ||
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LegalLord
United Kingdom13775 Posts
Anyways, looks like there's a more comprehensive thread for Rio and we should move there instead: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sports/512339-olympics-rio-de-janeiro-2016 | ||
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Kevin_Sorbo
Canada3217 Posts
If you ever take a ski trip there I wanna see pictures though! | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Less than a week before the 2016 Rio Olympics are set to start, the Brazil Ministry of Justice terminated its contract with a private firm that was supposed to provide security for the games. The ministry cited “incompetence and irresponsibility” from the Rio de Janeiro-based firm Artel, and moved to strip them of their duties. It’s not hard to see why the Ministry of Justice reacted so harshly. With only a few days left until the first venues are set to open, Artel admitted that they have only hired 500 security personnel. They were supposed to hire 3,400. These staff members were going to be responsible for screening visitors outside each Olympic venue. X-ray machines and body searches are now going to be handled by local police forces to secure areas that are expected to have tens of thousands of screaming fans. The same local police that had this welcoming sign for tourists last month. ![[image loading]](https://s1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/yYgNTpn2zJyKLEdxJKEdIg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztxPTg1/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/03ffb43abefaf444936be9bd1592c318) Police have voiced concerns over pay, and there have been open strikes in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics. A total of 85,000 security forces are still expected to be present when the competition begins Wednesday. Source | ||
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Harris1st
Germany6931 Posts
btw new thread: Click me for the new thread | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
Bribe money > snow | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands21689 Posts
On August 03 2016 00:26 andrewlt wrote: The legacy of Sochi is that they found a place in Russia that doesn't get much snow. Of course, that's a tad inconvenient when you want to host a Winter Olympics. The 2022 one is going to be held in Beijing, which doesn't get much either. They're going to have to truck in loads of snow from way out of town. Bribe money > snow At least I have faith in China to host a proper Olympics. | ||
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