Study: Rio Olympics Will Expose Athletes To Antibiotics-Resistant Super Bacteria

[Young_Chitlin]

Rio de Janeiro’s state government is declaring a state of “public calamity” and says extreme measures must be taken or this summer’s Olympics won’t happen.

The statement calls for immediate emergency actions must be taken to prevent a “total collapse in public safety, health, education, transport and environmental management.”

Brazil’s government is a disaster, with most top federal officials under investigation for corruption and the economy a wreck due to low oil prices—leaving it in essentially no condition to safely conduct an event that will bring an estimated half-million people to Rio. The city’s atrocious sanitary conditions threaten to expose athletes and spectators to deadly, antibiotics-resistant super bacteria, as well.

Of course, we hear this every Olympiad. Athens was a wreck, Beijing a mess, and Sochi was completely unfinished—until the Opening Ceremony kicked off, when suddenly whatever needed to be done, was done. It wouldn’t be cynical to expect the same come August, but no host country has ever been in such dire financial and leadership straits as Brazil is right now.

 

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[usmarin3]

First off, The olympics ain't that serious.... I wonder how lame do a muthafucka gotta be, to still go after all the information, facts, and signs that warrant them not to. Nobody puttin a gun to their head...

Second off, we already know the bacteria was created to target afro brazilians.

Aside from basketball players, tennis players and soccer players, the Olympics are where most of these athletes make their money and make a name for themselves. It is that serious for them. You think mf's give a fuck about gymnastics, track and field, swimming,etc outside of the Olympics.

 

[Young_Chitlin]

I’m usually cynical about the chicken-little claims that a given Olympics is going to be a disaster. Biennially, everyone spends the run-up to the games fretting, and then the games go off largely hitchless. (And then the disaster strikes as the mountain of debt.) But Rio de Janeiro sure is doing its damndest to prove the doomsayers right.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (which sucks—seriously it sucks) announced today that it has suspended the accreditation of the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory in Rio—the lab that was scheduled to handle tests during the Summer Olympics, and the only WADA-accredited lab anywhere nearby.

The suspension, due to an unspecified “non-conformity,” prevents the Rio lab from testing urine and blood samples. So...how are these Olympics going to go down?

 

[Rubato Garcia]

So no drug testing but you might catch a deadly bacterial infection. Hmm...

 

[Smokey Tha Bandit]

this shit needs to be cancelled

 

[Turfaholic]

LeBron said fuck that lol

 

[infamous114]

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/748252557236133888

 

[Beta]

Yeahhhhhh...ima need them to cancel this shit..

I fear there will be a terrorist attack there and the fallout from that is gonna lead to me being drafted

 

[Young_Chitlin]

Bent Flyvbjerg and two other researchers from the business school at Oxford University published a study concluding that Rio de Janeiro spent $4.6 billion to put on the Olympics, $1.6 billion more than their $3 billion budget, good for a 51 percent overshoot. This is less than the usual cost to put on a Summer Olympics (the last six have cost an average of $8.9 billion) and far less than the furthest any city has gone over budget (Montreal went 720 percent over in 1976).
Http://deadspin.com/study-the-rio-olympics-went-1-6-billion-over-budget-1783310108

 

[Smokey Tha Bandit]

this shit needs to be cancelled

on 2nd thought, nevermind. I hope Durant catches zika... fag

 

[texas409]

this shit might cause a world outbreak if folks catch those diseases and bring them home

 

[Young_Chitlin]

This week’s scheduled move-in for the Olympic athletes’ village in Brazil fell flat, as the Australian delegation refused to enter the facilities due to serious issues with plumbing and fire safety.

That’s according to the Sydney Morning Herald, which cites the AOC claiming the Australian athletes arrived today intending to check into their rooms, only to find them “uninhabitable.” The Herald claims the Great Britain and New Zealand delegations found themselves in the same spot upon arrival this weekend.

The Australians discovered water flowing down the walls upon attempting to flush toilets, a strong smell of gas, and exposed wiring. The team is currently staying in hotels to await their accommodations for the Games.

 

[Young_Chitlin]

https://mobile.twitter.com/WyreDavies/status/757262759100837888?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

 

[Ghostdenithegawd]

This shit is a fucking disaster

 

[Mister B.]

Once NBC backs out, they'll stop it. Shame NBC gives less fucks than the IOC.

 

[Young_Chitlin]

New Zealand MMA fighter Jason Lee says men in police uniforms kidnapped him in Rio de Janeiro, forcing the jiu-jitsu specialist to withdraw money from two ATMs and hand it over, or be be arrested.

That’s according to the New Zealand Herald, citing Lee’s social media posts:

On Facebook, Lee wrote “yesterday I got kidnapped in Brazil.” Lee said he was kidnapped by people in police uniforms, “not by some random people with guns.”

He added “I was threatened with arrest if I did not get in their private car and accompany them to two ATMs to withdraw a large sum of money for a bribe.

“I’m not sure what’s more depressing, the fact this stuff is happening to foreigners so close to the Olympic Games or the fact that Brazilians have to live in a society that enables this absolute bullshit on a daily basis. This place is well and truly f***ked in every sense of the word imaginable.”

Lee appears to have been living in Brazil long enough to integrate himself into a jiu-jitsu gym; his YouTube page has videos as recent as this week featuring his fellow fighters. The Olympics begin in less than two weeks; Rio police are already warning visitors that they are not safe.

 

[Chi-Town Bully]

If the damn police saying you're not safe why even go there

 

[infamous114]

Yea cause the police aren't even being paid lol. That's why they're robbing dudes. Brazil seems to be hell on Earth right now

 

[Beta]

This will be interesting.....