Apocalympics 2016 - Latest News

[gigantes]

get your updates right here (https://www.reddit.com/r/apocalympics2016). :facepalm



Health - General - Studies find 'super bacteria' in Rio's Olympic venues, top beaches (reuters.com)


General - Discussion - I nominate Juma the jaguar to be this sub's official spirit animal. (shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com)


Civil - Nonparticipants - 2 Canadian support staff opt out of Rio Olympics over Zika fears. (theglobeandmail.com)


Civil - Nonparticipants - McDowell out (rte.ie)


Civil - Nonparticipants - Rory McIlroy pulls out of Rio Olympics over Zika fears (bbc.co.uk)


Civil - Seriously though, what the **** - Only route between airport and Olympic Village is a gang warzone with 'shootings, car jackings and hostage takings'. (dailymail.co.uk)


Event - Disaster - A Torch Is Lit in Athens, and a Bridge Collapses in Rio (theatlantic.com)


Civil - Poverty/Crime/Unrest - Paralympian and team official robbed at gunpoint. (smh.com.au)


Let the games begin - Amazon jaguar escapes its handlers, shot dead at Olympic torch ceremony (reuters.com)


Health - General - Trash, Raw Sewage create trouble for Rio Olympic sailors (edition.cnn.com)


Civil - Nonparticipants - Russians banned from Rio (wbur.org)


Civil - Crime/Unrest - Rio Hospital attacked at Gun Point to free Drug Lord (edition.cnn.com)


Health - Zika - WHO's Zika response plan is only 13% funded (straitstimes.com)

[LakersDaBEst]

3 olympians got robbed so far

[Riddler]

Apocalympics :oldlol:


Maybe we should just cancel the games this year. Just to be safe.

[gigantes]

Maybe we should just cancel the games this year. Just to be safe.
sounds like even the governor's with you:

"Rio governor warns Olympics could be 'big failure'
USA TODAY‎ - 4 hours ago"





and check out who's on strike!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cl912ceWIAAqzfu.jpg

[Meticode]

What a clusterf*ck so far.

[Facepalm]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cl1eFODWYAEGBuD.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cl-qW0ZWMAAvFAf.jpg



Can't wait for all the athletes and tourists to land!! :facepalm

[UK2K]

Maybe we should stop trying to host global events in third world shit holes?

[Facepalm]

Rio's horror week: Body parts wash up near Olympics beach volleyball site


Rio de Janeiro is broke
Two days before the gruesome body parts discovery, the acting governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro warned that the Games could be a "big failure" because the state is out of money.




http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/30/americas/rio-olympics-body-parts-found/index.html

[gigantes]

There's No Cause for Concern - Rio Olympics 2016
submitted 14 hours ago by r3xmund0

Jordan Spieth won't compete in Olympics (espn.go.com)
submitted 5 hours ago by noobit

Athletes worried about Zika can skip Olympics, but what about tech workers?
submitted 8 hours ago by joegee66

ZikaStiff upper lip: Zika 'bad excuse' for pull-outs (bbc.com)
submitted 2 days ago by joegee66

Crime - Australia urges Brazil to increase security after Olympic athlete robbed | World news (theguardian.com)
submitted 3 days ago by taptapper

Well, all I can say at this point is that I'm really "looking forward" to the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
submitted 3 days ago by theforgottentaco

[NEWS/VIDEO] Protesters try to put out the Olympic Torch in Porto Alegre - Brazil (they later succeed) (zh.clicrbs.com.br)
submitted 4 days ago by bLancoCamaLeon

Sergeant is killed during a operation at the Rola slums, in Rio, he's the 56th cop killed in 2016 (youtube.com/user/FactualRJ)
submitted 4 days ago by PissPuddle

Rio police killed 644 people in 2015 (dailymail.co.uk)
submitted 4 days ago by belin_

Media equipment stolen from a Olympics Committee Car (globoesporte.globo.com)
submitted 4 days ago by Dragonovith

As Rio Readies For Summer Olympics, LGBT Brazilians Are Being Murdered On An Epic Scale (newnownext.com)
submitted 5 days ago by lingben

Might the failure of the Rio Olympics be a good thing?
submitted 5 days ago by MassStockholmSyndrom

Here's a pretty good video explaining why Rio is ****ed. (youtube.com/user/MachinimaETC)
submitted 5 days ago by Krypton-115

To compete in sewage water, Rio Olympians turn to antimicrobial clothes (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 days ago by SergeantFTC

Brazilian soldiers begin patrolling Rio Olympic venues amid rising crime rates (theguardian.com)
submitted 6 days ago by Skunky_Brewster

Rio admits it will fail to clean up 'open sewer' of 2016 sailing venue. (theguardian.com)
submitted 6 days ago by kalel1980

New app that maps shootings in Rio de Janeiro launched today (fogocruzado.org.br)
submitted 6 days ago by maliceosa

'Super bacteria' discovered in Rio's waters as Olympics near (cnn.com)
submitted 6 days ago by puertoallegre

Biology - Monkeys in Brazil have used stone tools for hundreds of years at least
submitted 7 days ago stonehead_jones

[gigantes]

Rio officials lose keys to Olympic stadium, need bolt cutters to get in (sportingnews.com)


Nigeria men's football team will arrive in Brazil 6 hours before their first match as their first plane was 'too small'. (bbc.co.uk)


We Were Promised The Greenest Olympics Ever. We Got An Ecological Disaster. (thinkprogress.org)


Olympic Flame bearer drops pants to protest brazilian government (in portuguese with video) (ionline.sapo.pt)


China's basketball team is in the midst of shooting in expressway Rio (sportv.globo.com)


Rio 2016: Riot police use tear gas and rubber bullets to clear Olympic protests (independent.co.uk)


Rio Olympics opening ceremony chaos threat as huge protests planned by angry Brazilians (mirror.co.uk)


Company threatens to shut down generators on Olympic arenas due to lack of credentials, shutting down the generators would hinder TV transmissions (oglobo.globo.com)


As Rio Games approach, 1.3 million tickets left unsold (reuters.com)


The Australian Team's Olympic Build-up Goes From Bad to Worse. "When I arrived midway through evacuation, I saw three fire marshals walking out with our team shirts" (sports.vice.com)


Danish athletes robbed inside the Olympic Village (Danish article) (dr.dk)
submitted 23 hours ago by bbuullll33rr


"I want to win Olympic gold for sex": Rio escort wants to use Games to find a boyfriend 'just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman' (dailymail.co.uk)


Officials Worried Olympic Cemetery Won

[9erempiree]

It's a curse to host these events especially for these smaller countries.

I will elaborate once I get inside. On my phone.

[UK2K]

I saw where the Australians had to evacuate because of a fire alarm only to go back in after half an hour to realize...

A) their laptops and clothing had been stolen

and

B) the fire alarm wasn't even functional

:lol :lol :lol :lol

This is what trying to be fair to everyone gets you... a ****ing dangerous disaster.

[9erempiree]

Never ever give the Olympics to 3rd world countries. Going by past trends, Olympic venues normally turn to shit and deserted.

In an effort to help 3rd world countries such as Brazil....they have actually done more harm to them because of the money spent.

Beijing was a successful Olympic and one of the best of all time but take a look at the venues now.

Birds nest and that fancy swimming complex....look at it now. Remember when it was all great on TV?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Beijing_National_Aquatics_Centre_1.jpg/640px-Beijing_National_Aquatics_Centre_1.jpg

Here is Athens
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/13/1407944558135/80554574-ecdf-472b-8e66-574e182fe302-2060x1236.jpeg?w=720&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&

If big countries can host them and abandon their venues afterwards look what it will do to Brazil. The waste. Heck, the WC stadiums look like shit too.

[bluechox2]

when did the greeks get fu cked over and lost their competition to white big wigs


their economy could have been driven by the olympics held every 4 years in greece

[gigantes]

when did the greeks get fu cked over and lost their competition to white big wigs

their economy could have been driven by the olympics held every 4 years in greece
that is no question the best point i've seen so far.

as in-- the greeks invented the olympics and made the games famous for hundreds (or thousands?) of years. now that the greek economy is struggling, wouldn't it be nice to give them a tip o the hat by returning their fabulous invention back to them?

the real point is that financially, you can set up sports venue buildings in athens that can be used over and over again, year after year.

meaning, the citizens of all the countries who hosted the games in the past don't have to keep paying money for the bullshit upkeep of dead, useless facilities.

and the corrupt, money-chasing olympic committees who make an art out of bleeding the local taxpayers in cooperation with the local scam artists (*cough*) regents in charge, might actually be forced to find honest work for a change!

what do you think about THAT plan, duderinos?

[Akrazotile]

Never understood how the Olympics gets so much revenue to do all this.

Do they get big rating numbers for relay races? Diving? Javelin throw? Nobody has any interest in that stuff for 3 years and 11 months. Do they really get that many people watching these things in the Olympics to justify these massive budgets??

I mean it's cool if they do. It just surprises me.

[Facepalm]

Build a permanent Olympic facility in Greece, and in first world countries in Asia, North America and maybe...another European location and rotate them. NO more bidding and wasting money and lessen corruption. Keep them in first world countries that can afford them and have the infrastructure. Greece only gets one because they invented them.

[UK2K]

They literally had to call the FD to have them cut the chains off the gate because apparently someone forgot the keys..

Lol wtf. As an athlete, how could you feel safe?

[Akrazotile]

Build a permanent Olympic facility in Greece, and in first world countries in Asia, North America and maybe...another European location and rotate them. NO more bidding and wasting money and lessen corruption. Keep them in first world countries that can afford them and have the infrastructure. Greece only gets one because they invented them.


Second this.

Instead of bailing them out with the tax dollars of other countries, give them a chance to make some money through one of their own traditions. Let them have every other summer Olympics and every other winter Olympics or somethin like that.

This shit is an embarrassment.

[gigantes]

Never understood how the Olympics gets so much revenue to do all this.

Do they get big rating numbers for relay races? Diving? Javelin throw? Nobody has any interest in that stuff for 3 years and 11 months. Do they really get that many people watching these things in the Olympics to justify these massive budgets??

I mean it's cool if they do. It just surprises me.
the olympics is the oldest, most famous and premier sporting event in the world. every sub-sport therefore gets magnified in importance and the extended nature of the event greatly enhances nationalistic fervor and competition between nations. also, there's so much going on that the TV / media coverage can be pretty much 'best of' and highlights for the entire event, plus they can throw in all kinds of additional stuff, like analysis and human interest stories and all that.

even the traditionally low-popularity stuff, like basket weaving on ice, suddenly becomes intriguing because they can show you just enough to pique your fancy but not enough to bore the average audience. getting the olympics is huge for any TV network and therefore worth lots of revenue for everyone involved.

so basically you have the olympic committee and local organisers chasing major shares of that sweet, sweet money. maybe some of them actually care about the integrity of the event and about the impact on the local region, but clearly they are in the minority. this is similar in the way major sports leagues collude with franchise owners and city officials to bilk the tax-payers and sports fans out of billions of dollars on an ongoing basis. sort of the donald trump model of business, except they don't tend to abandon the project after making their cut.

for sure i'm missing some of the details, but i think that's the gist of it.

[Facepalm]

Witnesses: Rio Media Bus Shot At While Returning Passengers To Olympic Park

Hannah Keyser
Yesterday 9:01pmFiled to: RIO OLYMPICS
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A bus carrying media personnel and volunteers between Olympic venues was attacked in Rio this evening, according to multiple media reports. Several people who were on the bus described the attack as gunfire. Initial reports said the bus was shot at on the Trans Olympic Highway when the

http://twitter.com/hoopfeed/status/763171732370841600/photo/1

Add this to the apocalympics

[gigantes]

from the "you can't make this stuff up" dept:

the original apocalympics subforum (as linked in the OP) was hacked, the mods were removed, and it was set to private-mode. then the hacking acct deleted itself.

looks like the olympic committee got a bit miffed and hired a friend. :oldlol:

the subforum has now been recreated. all the latest can now be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApocalympicsRio