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    2016 Summer Olympics: Rio preparations are 'worst' ever, says IOC VP

    http://www.sportingnews.com/sport/st...e-worst-update

    In an unusually blunt public warning, a vice president of the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday called the delayed preparations for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro "the worst I have experienced."

    John Coates, who has made six trips to Brazil as part of the IOC's coordination commission for Rio, said the Brazilians are behind "in many, many ways" and are in worse shape than Greek organizers were in preparing for the 2004 Olympics.

    Despite the critical delays, the Australian said there is no backup plan and the games will take place in Rio.

    Coates noted that the IOC had taken the unprecedented step of embedding experts in the host city to help the local organizing committee deliver the games.

    "The IOC has formed a special task force to try and speed up preparations but the situation is critical on the ground," Coates told an Olympic forum in Sydney, outlining that construction delays are just part of the problem. "The IOC has adopted a more hands-on role. It is unprecedented for the IOC, but there is no plan B. We are going to Rio."

    Brazil has also come under fire from football's world governing body, FIFA, for long delays in construction of stadiums and other infrastructure and the overdue delivery of venues for the World Cup, which kicks off in June. Two years out from the 2016 Olympics, the situation on the construction front is just as bleak.

    "We have become very concerned. They are not ready in many, many ways," Coates said. "And this is against a city that's got social issues that also have to be addressed; a country that's also trying to deal with the FIFA World Cup coming up in a few months."

    Coates said dealing with three levels of government in Brazil made it harder for local organizers than it was for the heavily criticized organizers of the Athens Games, which were also plagued by construction delays and earned a "yellow light" warning from then-IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch.

    "I think this is a worse situation than Athens," Coates said. "In Athens, we were dealing with one government and some city responsibilities. Here, there's three.

    "There is bureaucracy, there is little coordination between the federal, the state government and the city — which is responsible for a lot of the construction. The flow of funds from the federal government is not happening quickly enough. We think we need to help facilitate that."

    Coates, who chairs the IOC coordination commission for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, said he thinks the IOC has put the message across in Brazil.

    "We have to make it (the Olympics) happen and that is the IOC approach, you can't walk away from this," he said. "If it comes off — the first (Olympic) Games on the South American continent, in a magical city in so many ways — it'll be a wonderful experience for the athletes."

    Work hasn't begun at Deodoro, a complex for eight Olympics sports venues, and the course that will host golf's return to the Olympic program for the first time in more than a century doesn't have grass yet. Water pollution is a big worry for sailing and other sports.

    Concern over the delays has been building over time but hit crisis levels at the SportAccord meeting in Belek, Turkey, earlier this month.

    In a rare display of unified, open criticism against an Olympic host, 18 sports federations publicly aired concerns over Rio's preparations, with some sports asking about "Plan B" contingencies.

    The IOC has decided to send a senior troubleshooter, IOC executive director Gilbert Felli, to Brazil as part of a series of emergency measures to tackle the delays threatening the games. Coates said other experienced, high-level staff will soon be appointed.

    Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes fired back last week at the complaints by sports federations, saying they were making too many unnecessary demands.

    Paes said the federations were asking for too many "large things" that won't be used by the city after the Olympics.

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    They clearly have to kill more children to get prepared to prepare

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    brazil games? dear god, summer, too? i HAVE to get there. The asses

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    Wow, what a giant piece of fluff. Yes, the narrative is that there is too much bureaucracy and mismanagement, that's the critical issue going on over there lol

    Visiting Rio during the Olympics would be the worst idea ever. You'd have to spend more money to get the same shit, more ugly rich fat people in the way, higher likelihood of crime/fisticuffs/harassment by the pigs. Ignorance is bliss for everyone else, but you would actually have to block out the heavy loss of lives and livelihoods in that fucking circus tent.

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    I'm pretty sure I remember reading this same exact story when Greece was hosting the games and they turned out just fine.

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    They've got nothing on the number of foreign workers dying to build stadiums for the World Cup in Dubai.

    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?n...ies-180950088/

    Over 900 workers dead already.
    A report by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) says that if conditions don’t get any better, by the time the World Cup kicks off, at least 4,000 migrant workers will have died on the job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by archibaldcrane View Post
    A report by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) says that if conditions don’t get any better, by the time the World Cup kicks off, at least 4,000 migrant workers will have died on the job.
    Woooooow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by archibaldcrane View Post
    They've got nothing on the number of foreign workers dying to build stadiums for the World Cup in Dubai.

    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?n...ies-180950088/

    Over 900 workers dead already.

    holy shit

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    Whoa whoa whoa. First off, it's in Qatar, not Dubai. And second, those estimates that 4,000 migrant workers will die before the world cup are completely wrong -- so says the head of the International Media Relations for the Supreme Committee of Delivery & Legacy.
    http://deadspin.com/the-organizers-o...t-u-1550619295

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    Quote Originally Posted by Serra View Post
    Whoa whoa whoa. First off, it's in Qatar, not Dubai. And second, those estimates that 4,000 migrant workers will die before the world cup are completely wrong -- so says the head of the International Media Relations for the Supreme Committee of Delivery & Legacy.
    As the head of a committee as amazingly titled as that, how can he be wrong? Remember, they're the same people that reassured us that we've always been at war with Eastasia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Serra View Post
    so says the head of the International Media Relations for the Supreme Committee of Delivery & Legacy.
    fucking lol! Who names a committee that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by archibaldcrane View Post
    fucking lol! Who names a committee that?
    Someone awesome who knows the person they're appointing could never be wrong. Byrd knows what's up.

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    The United Arab Emirates, which includes Qatar, is notorious for bad migrant worker conditions. It's because they have a system called kafala where migrants basically lose all their rights to their sponsor, they even have their passport taken.

    Anyways yeah they say the same thing every Olympics. London wasn't prepared, Sochi wasn't prepared, and Greece wasn't prepared. Whatever it's the olympics. It's a giant hole to pour international money in. It always seems to work somehow and thereafter burdens the host city with a bunch expensive shit they can't use.

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    Qatar will have a stadium that looks kind of like it was inspired by a vagina though



    Quote Originally Posted by Gwynplaine View Post
    The United Arab Emirates, which includes Qatar
    Nope.

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    I will never understand why the Olympics cannot make rules for hosting countries so that they cannot do things like brush aside shanty towns full of people in order to "clean up" for the Olympics that they cannot afford to go to and will never see the benefits of. I think it would be nice if they could spend a portion of that "economic development" on that part of their cities.

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    Brazil will be hosting the World Cup of Soccer in a couple months. We'll see how that goes as far as the shape of the Olympics.

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    so we're not gonna watch phelps get a bunch of bronze medals since he's coming outa retirement and clearly won't be up to snuff, and will lose to big dick lochte?

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    Was going to post this in the Winter Olympics thread, but this one is more recent, so it seems like a better choice.

    A few of us had hoped for the day when NBC didn't own the rights to the Olympics anymore.. but looks like that's not going to be for a long long time..
    http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/07/news...html?hpt=hp_t2
    NBC has agreed to pay $7.7 billion to broadcast the Olympics through the 2032 Summer Games.

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    The Olympics will be a total disaster, as will be the world cup (obvious things are obvious).

    This is coming from a Brazilian, living in Rio.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Serra View Post
    A few of us had hoped for the day when NBC didn't own the rights to the Olympics anymore.. but looks like that's not going to be for a long long time..
    ALL HAIL VPNS AND BBC COVERAGE

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