Report: Rio Olympic Village is ‘unlivable’, athletes might not move in
By Josh Hill
The Rio Olympic Village is reportedly a giant, sewage filled dumpster fire.
The Rio Olympics are right around the corner and basically no one is looking froward to them. While it will be a global event shared by all, the games are being marred by reports that antibacterial resistant viruses are lurking in ever drop of water you encounter — and that’s the upshot of all the things that are going wrong.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the Olympic Village is currently being deemed ‘unlivable’ with just two weeks to go before athletes have to move in.
Saying it’s ‘unlivable’ seems to be an understatement given what some officials have said about the conditions under which the best athletes in the world will have to live while they compete in August.
That’s gross — plain and simple.
What this also does is further the narrative that these Olympics are going to be hot garbage. Not because the games will be poorly played but because there will probably be burning piles of trash all over the place in the background — or floating on water.
We all slammed the Sochi Olympics for being as Soviet as the old Union was in Russia but this is on a whole new level of atrocious. What might be in store if IOC reform, as it’s clear that picking a destination for the Olympics — or getting bribed into going somewhere — doesn’t mean everything will live up to the standards in the end.
Not by a long shot.
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