I’ve never understood people’s obsession with the Olympics. It’s basically a bunch of people who’ve already won the genetic/financial lottery competing in pointless activities to see who is the most special. If they ever decide to do a publicized wold competition between a bunch of science nerds trying to cure cancer,…

No, Olympic athlete, we WON’T. Because every single aspect of this freakshow is completely unacceptable! The Brazilian people have discovered so many new ways they can be screwed over, the Olympic Village is uninhabitable—water flooding down the walls, exposed wiring; most of the venues you’re supposed to be competing…

Tragically, it is. The corruption and violence in the favelas is wretched.

Every time I read about the Olympics the tagline is, “it’s worse than we thought.” What ELSE can go wrong??

You get one of these super bacteria that can cause other bacteria to become untreatable, and you will never be okay. If you become immunocompromised, good luck.

I have no clue why they keep making these cities build structures from the ground up. Why not just rotate the games out with the former host cities or cities equipped to handle the Games? There are plenty of cities that don’t have to spend billions to overhaul all their infrastructure and build an Olympic Village.…

Think of all those nastywasty diseases hitching rides on visitors and going home with them.

fucking right? he said that like it was some everyday casual shit

You really have to wonder why we hate Olympians so much. They only get one shot every 4 years to do their sport, and when their chance finally comes up it’s “BTW: you’re going to have to do all of this in a toxic waste dump not fit for human exposure. Don’t forget to stretch.”

I hope the World Health Organization starts tracking the health and mortality of Olympic athletes. And I hope the athletes sue the (literal?) crap out of the IOC if this is as bad as we all know it could be. The IOC knew Brazil and Rio were not ready for this.

I smell another Weekend at Bernie’s sequel...

Oh, blatantly. FIFA at least pretends to be offended by accusations of impropriety. The IOC is like, “Well, yeah. We couldn’t possibly have an Olympics without a reception with the head of state, special lanes for our vehicles and extended bar hours at the hotel - which must rate 4 or 5 stars, of course. Make sure the…

SOFAS AND DEAD BODIES

Every time I read about the Olympics the tagline is, “it’s worse than we thought.” What ELSE can go wrong??

But does your aunt swim in sewage filled water? Inquiring minds...

it’s a fact

This is the Brazilian political ineptitude and corruption at its worst, on display for the whole world to witness and suffer through. The sociopath politicians who insisted on having the games there had ample time and public funding (of course) to turn this around. Not only have they done NOTHING of what was planned,…

The one potential net-positive of all this negative publicity is that perhaps environmental officials can finally get the leverage to address the problem, which has clearly been building for years

This whole thing would be an amazing black comedy if it wasn’t, y’know, actually happening in real life.

Let’s hear it for the unspeakable human rights violations and other unsavory facts in #Rio2016 #TeamUSA