[Paulie]

Yes, yes...but there was plenty of condoms delivered to the participants and plenty of sex!

Let’s focus on what’s important...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Every kid got a medal or two for participating...or not...so, It’s All Good! ;)

[Vigilanteman]

FWIW, my daughter attended several Olympic events in Beijing, 2008. There were few empty seats. The hosts were mostly embarrassed by the lack of non-Chinese faces in the crowd.

To combat the problem, the officials went to the few places in the area where there were a lot of foreigners (a college in my daughter's case) and gave away as many free tickets as they possibly could.

Initially, she said it was flattering, but after awhile she had to politely refuse them or she wouldn't have had time for her necessary classwork and studies.

The Chinese were also smart enough to build facilities which could be used after the games were over.

[colorado tanker]

The games have reached a ridiculous scale, even for rich countries. For a country like Brazil to throw all that money away is criminal. They need to dial it back, but the IOC, awash in $$, will never do it.

[Billthedrill]

Even so, it is the IOC which is ultimately responsible for turning the modern Olympics into this ruinous behemoth. Given all that has happened in Rio, you might imagine that the time has come to start trimming this circus back to more manageable dimensions.

Good grief. It isn't retrievable under current management. Fire the EOC, send the fat cats home, and

(1) Kick the Muslim invaders out of the 2004 facilities in Greece.

(2) Renovate those facilities with EU money. Because Greece doesn't have any.

(3) Run the Olympics there every four years. Greek tourism up. Facilities costing, manageable.

(4) Do the same with the Winter Olympics so we won't be watching skiers trying to run a downhill slalom over manufactured raspberry slushies. Maybe Lillehammer might be nice. Maybe Oslo. Not Dubai.

But first things first. Fire the EOC. It's just another sinecure for elite, wealthy globalist fatcats with more interest in their own pockets than in the welfare of the host nation.

[NEMDF]

I guess I have never had an expectation that hosting the Olympics would miraculously cure every flaw in the host city/country. We probably paid more attention to the Olympics this summer, than we have for many years, and felt that they went off much more smoothly than expected.

If people thought hosting the Olympics was going to turn Rio or Brazil into something different, culturally, they probably had unrealistic expectations.

[riri]

25% of Rio lives in a favela.

Ofcourse, they were trying to paint favela living as something normal and desirable during the olympics.

"We are now flying over Rios largest favela, Rocinha--home of a vibrant and diverse population"..."

We get closer to Hunger Games every day.

[onedoug]

Unwatched.

[nascarnation]

The good news is that Chicago got turned down for the 2016 Olympics.
Could you imagine Baraq, Mooch, Sharia, and Malaria on the broadcast 24/7 for two weeks?

[AlaskaErik]

Poverty and crime continues in the Brazilian capital after athletes leave

I must have missed the story about the capital being moved to Rio.

[DoughtyOne]

Okay look, I enjoyed this Olympics as much as I did the last two.  I do get somewhat tired of all the carping.

I didn't watch, but you know what, I found that preferable and quite enjoyable.


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[tcrlaf]

I’ll bet Sochi seemed like a paradise compared to RIO.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Geez, it’s a third world country. If you’ve ever been there, parts of it rivals any other poverty areas of the world. This is what you get when you choose Brazil. But people shouldn’t complain. It is what it is.