I didn’t say only, fuckstick. I said:

This makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification.

Perhaps I should further explain. I know conditions are a horrible, and I know athletes will put themselves through a lot because of how much this means to them.

I think you’d have a very large threshold for ‘issues’, if you trained your whole life for an event.

I’m not sure which is worse: your ignorance in the face of demonstrable facts, or your smugness. Maybe I should start a poll.

i do not understand why people cannot accept that athletes who have been working their entire lives for this one opportunity aren’t going to let it go. it is so fucking ignorant

Then you are dumb as fuck. Thanks for commenting.

If you’re an Olympic athlete, training for these games is your job, and competing in them is your life’s goal. Pointing out that the host country sucked at completing facilities shouldn’t mean that you therefore have to leave and give up.

“There were water leaks in the walls, on the ceiling. There were things done in a hurry and with poor quality materials, but we also think there was some sabotage because, if not that, how is it that cement blocks up the plumbing pipes? It’s a mess and failures are repeated throughout the Villa.”

Essentially, they place stress on the utilities: 1) flush all the toilets at once, make sure all the shit stays in the pipes, not careening down the elevator shafts or leaking down the walls; 2) turn on all the lights, make sure nothing catches on fire......oh

No, but a building with a few hundred to thousand people in it using the toilets, and with electric devices in every room, and getting kidnapped daily, is a lot different than one in which the plumbing is all connected and the lights turn on in every room.

Then again it’s Chicago so there are plenty of other bullets to be dodged.

...shoddy conditions – which include flooded floors, broken elevators, mould and holes in the ceiling – have shocked some team managers, athletes and volunteers.

God damn it. You just reminded me that Fox News had the correct take on Chicago losing the games, and the Daily Show got it wrong. Granted their reasoning was little more than “Obama sucks” and the Daily Show’s was “No. You suck.” But still. Technically correct. Thanks for that. Now I need a drink. FUCK, I have a…

“gas leaks, power outages, and ‘a small fire.’”

Italian Manager: These conditions are terrible!!!

Of course the Italians had their own plumbers...

+3.72 Nicely done

be it 12/31 full or 19/31 empty your still drinking a tall glass of shit.

Raw sewage at the athletes’ village prepared them for raw sewage at the competition venues. The Brazilians just want to help!!!