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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [b4itwascold] [ In reply to ]
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b4itwascold wrote:
travelmama wrote:
racin_rusty wrote:
http://news.nationalpost.com/...c-athletes-ambitions

Un - Fricking Believable.

You are right and thank you for posting. I am sitting here now trying to sort out a trip down for the Paralympics because I really want to see wheelchair rugby in a month. Heck, I am wondering if waiting to buy a flight is worth the risk of being able to attend at such a low cost.



This is becoming ugly. Is the Paralympics became the scapegoat of all this Olympic. Only 12% or so tickets sold. Changing venues to cut cost.
http://www.nytimes.com/...economic-crisis.html

ETA: and on top of all Russia has been banned from the Paralympics as well. Can't keep up with this..
http://www.cnn.com/...s-russia-ban-upheld/
I heard and read about this the other day on BBC. It is a big mess that should never be. Paralympians have done their part yet get no love or due respect from those in power. Surely the games will go on but at a high cost.


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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [travelmama] [ In reply to ]
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Solo gets 6 months suspension for her "coward" comments.

http://www.espn.com/...-soccer?sf34270234=1

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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [slowguy] [ In reply to ]
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slowguy wrote:
Solo gets 6 months suspension for her "coward" comments.

http://www.espn.com/...-soccer?sf34270234=1
She will never learn to keep to herself.


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slowguy wrote:
Solo gets 6 months suspension for her "coward" comments.http://www.espn.com/...-soccer?sf34270234=1[/quote[/url]]

It's sound a bit excessive to me but them again it's national games which are not played often perhaps. IMO, that's there way of telling her days on the national team is over.
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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [b4itwascold] [ In reply to ]
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b4itwascold wrote:
slowguy wrote:
Solo gets 6 months suspension for her "coward" comments.http://www.espn.com/...-soccer?sf34270234=1


It's sound a bit excessive to me but them again it's national games which are not played often perhaps. IMO, that's there way of telling her days on the national team is over.

I'd look at it like suspending a starting pitcher for four games. He won't actually miss a start, but it's a shot across the bow to let him know the next time will actually hurt.

Same here. Solo won't really miss any important international matches, but they get to make it clear that they're sick of her shit.

Her statement in response, by the way, basically tells them to fuck off, she's not going to change.

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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [b4itwascold] [ In reply to ]
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It just keeps getting better.

Apparently Brazilian Vogue published a photo shoot to celebrate the Paralympics, and did so by posing able bodied models, and then photoshopping them to look disabled. This, despite the fact that they had disabled people on site "for inspiration."

Awesome.

http://www.metronews.ca/...-vogue-campaign.html

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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [slowguy] [ In reply to ]
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slowguy wrote:
It just keeps getting better.

Apparently Brazilian Vogue published a photo shoot to celebrate the Paralympics, and did so by posing able bodied models, and then photoshopping them to look disabled. This, despite the fact that they had disabled people on site "for inspiration."

Awesome.

http://www.metronews.ca/...-vogue-campaign.html
I find it interesting that the few para-athletes on set were okay with it.


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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [travelmama] [ In reply to ]
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Didn't win a medal? Do not pass go, do not collect $200, just go to jail!
http://www.zerohedge.com/...ns-no-olympic-medals
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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [racin_rusty] [ In reply to ]
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Didn't win a medal? Do not pass go, do not collect $200, just go to jail!
http://www.zerohedge.com/...ns-no-olympic-medals[/quote]

His point became crystal clear at the end..
“This situation is like an impotent man who is married to five women, what is the essence?
Glory.
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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [slowguy] [ In reply to ]
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Another example of twisted thinking.
From the article:
"“ Vogue’s Brazilian edition said the aim of the campaign titled, "We’re all Paralympians,” is to bring visibility to the event and to help sell tickets."
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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [travelmama] [ In reply to ]
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I didn't want to look for more bad news but did it anyway...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...to-clean-grimy-room/

have to clean the rooms themselves to bring it to standard and look for drivers for transportation.
"Harbison told the Telegraph: “We’re pretty much just scrubbing and cleaning the apartments ourselves. “There was a rudimentary clean but to get it clean as we expect, we had to do it ourselves.” Branding the rooms “dusty and grimy”, he added: “We had to give them a good scrub.”
"The news on transport was not much better. “Because of the cutbacks, the organising committee aren’t providing drivers, so I’ve spent the last day or two trying to hire drivers basically to ferry our team all around Rio for the next two weeks,”
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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [b4itwascold] [ In reply to ]
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I didn't want to look for more bad news but did it anyway...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...to-clean-grimy-room/

have to clean the rooms themselves to bring it to standard and look for drivers for transportation.
"Harbison told the Telegraph: “We’re pretty much just scrubbing and cleaning the apartments ourselves. “There was a rudimentary clean but to get it clean as we expect, we had to do it ourselves.” Branding the rooms “dusty and grimy”, he added: “We had to give them a good scrub.”
"The news on transport was not much better. “Because of the cutbacks, the organising committee aren’t providing drivers, so I’ve spent the last day or two trying to hire drivers basically to ferry our team all around Rio for the next two weeks,”
This is very sad amd unfortunate.


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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [travelmama] [ In reply to ]
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its the winter games but some things didn't change.
"Russian athlete banned from competing in Rio Olympics for doping charges" holds true for the winter Olympics too.

Some weather issues in South Korea and the latest:
https://www.reuters.com/...-games-idUSKBN1FW0DB
a big TV screen crashes injuring 10 people or so


Looks like the theme is all the crashes and slips that are happening, and the organizers taking some heat for that.
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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [b4itwascold] [ In reply to ]
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Its the winter Olympics, its suppose to be cold! This is what makes the Winter Olympics go to places like Beijing or Sochi where there really isn't winter like weather and they haul snow into the events.

As far as wind, unless your Ski Jumping....HTFU.
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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [b4itwascold] [ In reply to ]
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Dropping $109 mil on a disposable stadium seems to be a marginally intelligent investment.

https://archpaper.com/...tadium-no-roof-heat/

As the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea dazzles with massive drone displays and American triple axels, spectators in the main Olympic stadium have been left out in the cold. The $109 million, pentagonal stadium has 35,000 seats but no roof or heating elements, and will only be used four times before being torn down.
The decision to build a low-cost arena designed for planned obsolescence isn’t a crazy idea. With the total cost of the games approaching nearly $13 billion, keeping a 35,000-seat stadium running when PyeongChang County only has 40,000 residents was prohibitively expensive. Even the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has warned that Olympic venues can be become “white elephants” after the games end, as they historically have within other hosting cities.

I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.
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j p o wrote:
Dropping $109 mil on a disposable stadium seems to be a marginally intelligent investment.

https://archpaper.com/...tadium-no-roof-heat/

As the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea dazzles with massive drone displays and American triple axels, spectators in the main Olympic stadium have been left out in the cold. The $109 million, pentagonal stadium has 35,000 seats but no roof or heating elements, and will only be used four times before being torn down.
The decision to build a low-cost arena designed for planned obsolescence isn’t a crazy idea. With the total cost of the games approaching nearly $13 billion, keeping a 35,000-seat stadium running when PyeongChang County only has 40,000 residents was prohibitively expensive. Even the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has warned that Olympic venues can be become “white elephants” after the games end, as they historically have within other hosting cities.


"PyeongChang County only has 40,000 residents was prohibitively expensive"
Like building a soccer stadium in northern Brazil city of Manaus (city in the jungle and costed $300 million to build) or the world cup, while the city has a marginal soccer club.

And countries FIGHT to host one of those events (summer/winter Olympics or world cups). So national pride, prestige has no price tag apparently, otherwise how would one explain this?
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Re: Rio Olympics Woes [b4itwascold] [ In reply to ]
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b4itwascold wrote:
j p o wrote:
Dropping $109 mil on a disposable stadium seems to be a marginally intelligent investment.

https://archpaper.com/...tadium-no-roof-heat/

As the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea dazzles with massive drone displays and American triple axels, spectators in the main Olympic stadium have been left out in the cold. The $109 million, pentagonal stadium has 35,000 seats but no roof or heating elements, and will only be used four times before being torn down.
The decision to build a low-cost arena designed for planned obsolescence isn’t a crazy idea. With the total cost of the games approaching nearly $13 billion, keeping a 35,000-seat stadium running when PyeongChang County only has 40,000 residents was prohibitively expensive. Even the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has warned that Olympic venues can be become “white elephants” after the games end, as they historically have within other hosting cities.



"PyeongChang County only has 40,000 residents was prohibitively expensive"
Like building a soccer stadium in northern Brazil city of Manaus (city in the jungle and costed $300 million to build) or the world cup, while the city has a marginal soccer club.

And countries FIGHT to host one of those events (summer/winter Olympics or world cups). So national pride, prestige has no price tag apparently, otherwise how would one explain this?

I also appreciated their definition of "low cost".

I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.
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