Posted on 08/14/2016 6:57:43 AM PDT by C19fan
The American gold medallist swimmer Ryan Lochte has been held up at gunpoint during a party in Brazil.
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There are some neighborhoods in LA and Chicago that are worse.
I'm wondering if the Williams ladies didn't assess the situation and get it right. (crazy conspiracy theory speculation)
Brazil hasn’t hit bottom yet. How is that Communist / Socialist system working for you?
He’s no kid - he’s 32yrs old. Wonder whose party and where it was?
I don’t really care about all this elitist adulation and concern. There’s not a one of them that has bettered the collective condition of life in these here United States.
Likely, this episode will provide good TV interview fodder on the way to this elitist’s cashing in.
Agreed. I wonder if something like this would have happened at least once if The One had gotten his Olympic games in Chicago.
Agree, but the powers that be will use this as the excuse to have all future Olympics in 1st World countries for at least the next 30-50 years.
If...they can find a 1st World city stupid enough to host one.
If I know one thing about swimmers, it was a good party. The night after everyone is done is usually a blowout. After months and years and thousands of hours of preparation and building stress, it’s overdue. Especially with the success this group had in the past week. Well deserved.
I once saw a most rational solution to the politics, graft and payola that surrounds the selection of Olympic venues. The idea was this: since Greece was the origin of the Olympic concept, build an Olympic City in Greece and hold the games there each time. The standard venues for gymnastics, swimming, field sports etc would all be used over and over. Only the occasional rule change or addition of a new sport would create new construction. Athlete accommodations could be in the city as well. Extreme security measures would only have to manage a known area making that task very manageable.
It would reduce the crippling cost to a host country of building for an event that would never be used again. And it would help Greece a bit financially.
IMO a really good idea ...
Um no, because with the terrorist massacres going on, you can expect a massacre with a gun or a bomb to go off at future Olympic games as they happen in Europe or the U.S.A.
“the powers that be will use this as the excuse to have all future Olympics in 1st World countries for at least the next 30-50 years”
As “excuses” go, it’s really quite a good one.
Yup. But while the USA has some awful urban crime (especially in our worst 10-15 cities), for murder rates worldwide, Brazil has 21 of the “top 50” cities (Rio doesn’t quite make the list at 18.6 homicides per 100,000):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
Are there any first world countries left?
Switzerland, Japan and Israel.
After November, we’ll be on our way back.
Obama’s Portuguese side of the family
I have to agree. No one’s even mentioned the ‘72 Summer Games in Munich. Tragedy can strike the games in just about any country.
There was a year decades ago (1948?) when London held the games. They only used pre-existing facilities. (It was shortly after WWII and the games were just getting back on their feet, so it was far easier to to do that.)
Anyway, I would suggest that future games be held that way. The events have to be held at facilities already in existence. It might bring the games back to a more manageable level.
This story is bogus.
Olympics could have been in Chicago. Someone directly involved in the Games could be dead by now. Say, any murders in Rio this week?
In mid 2001 I was on a journalist trip to Brazil sponsored by Daimler Chrysler. Sao Paulo is a combination of beautiful tall buildings and cardboard houses lining their major streets. Execs take helicopters to their buildings because it is not safe to go on the streets. The graffiti was worse than South Central Los Angeles. Even in Rio, we were told to stay near the hotel and not go anywhere alone.
My biggest disappointment was at the topless beach near the hotel in Rio. Sure there were topless —— but they were all men. LOL
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