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Rio 2016: More than half of Olympic Village is not finished

By Hunter Cooke

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - JULY 24: A general view of the Olympic and Paralympic Village for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Barra da Tijuca. The Village will host up to 17,200 people amongst athletes and team officials during the Games and up to 6,000 during the Paralympic Games on July 24, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - JULY 24: A general view of the Olympic and Paralympic Village for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Barra da Tijuca. The Village will host up to 17,200 people amongst athletes and team officials during the Games and up to 6,000 during the Paralympic Games on July 24, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images) /
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The Rio Olympics are slowly morphing into the biggest dumpster fire the world has ever seen.

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How ridiculously awful the Rio Olympics are going to be has been a hot topic over the past couple of months. By now, we all know the same old song and dance.

  • Rio de Janeiro’s economy is in shambles, rendering them unable to pay many government officials.
  • We have zero cure for the Zika virus, you just take a bunch of Off with you and hope for the best.
  • The lack of government officials has led to a crime spike.
  • Rio is literally hell according to protestors.
  • The only anti-doping lab in Rio has been shut down.

These are only the highlights of the sinking ship of the Rio Olympics, there are many more things going wrong. For instance, more than half of the Olympic Village is uninhabitable less than two weeks before the start of the games. 19 of the 31 buildings have yet to pass basic security inspections. As athletes from all over the world begin pouring into the Olympic Village, Rio is still not ready for any of this.

If this wasn’t costing the lives of many citizens of Brazil, it would almost be a comedy of errors. It reads like a timeline produced by the Onion, not real life. Rio 2016 is in a random crisis generator, we just throw everything that could possibly go wrong at the Olympic Games in a blender and wait for something to fall out twice a week.

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