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This link was p. Good http://www.someecards.com/news/sochi-olympics/14-images-that-sum-up-why-the-sochi-olympics-are-already-a-disaster/
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Shappa posted:This is totally off the top of my head but I'm fairly certain Vancouver is ok after 2010. No idea if there's any outstanding debt/taxes/stray dogs though. I think the olympic village got converted into lovely condos, thus contributing to the eventual destruction of it's entire economy when the ridiculous housing bubble finally bursts. But hey you can spend over half a millions dollars for a converted one bedroom unit that: Wikipedia posted:Residents released video documenting major problems with their units, including water pouring out of light fixtures, heat not working, cracks in ceilings, hardwood floors bubbling from moisture and bedrooms too small to fit a bed. More than 60 condo owners at the Village filed a class-action lawsuit against the builder.
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:sochi.gif that was sochi? didn't the same thing happen in chinar
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http://englishrussia.com/2015/06/25/sochi-the-olympic-city-got-massively-flooded-today/ Sochi has bad drainage. Greece went bad because of the Olympics some speculate. It was the tipping point. "But the Olympics broke the bank. Government deficits rose every year after 1999, peaking at 7.5% of GDP in 2004, the year of the Olympics, thanks in large part to the 9 billion euro price tag for the Games. For a relatively small country like Greece, the cost of hosting the Games equaled roughly 5% of the annual GDP of the country." Oh, and there were a total of six bids which were initially submitted for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Four of those bids were eventually withdrawn by 1 October 2014, citing either the high costs or the lack of local support to host the games, leaving Almaty, Kazakhstan and Beijing, China as the only candidate cities left. Maybe they should just make one city for the Olympics and call it a day? edit : china had BSOD http://gizmodo.com/5035456/blue-screen-of-death-strikes-birds-nest-during-opening-ceremonies-torch-lighting Lime Tonics fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Feb 25, 2016 05:27
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Sochi is going to look like Pripyat eventually
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Feb 25, 2016 05:29
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Who are these people that care or get pumped for any of the Olympics in any capacity I mean really?
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Lime Tonics posted:http://englishrussia.com/2015/06/25/sochi-the-olympic-city-got-massively-flooded-today/ Wow. I knew Athens Olympics was a giant waste, but I didnt realize it didnt come any where close to what Sochi cost. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2723515/Athens-Olympics-leave-mixed-legacy-10-years-later.html
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Yolomon Wayne posted:Olympic: does being absorbed by majin buu count as doping?
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Feb 25, 2016 05:39
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At least the Sochi Paralympics had this insane bit with Tetris blocks and the Mission Impossible theme. Then then a dude missing both legs climbs a rope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNHEYmByqCY
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Feb 25, 2016 05:47
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Prettz posted:Sochi is going to look like Pripyat eventually Eh Sochi was a semi-popular resort town even before the Olympics. The dumb part is that it's a summer beach resort place. It'd be like doing Winter Olympics in South Carolina cause "Hey there are mountains (kinda) nearby!"
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Feb 25, 2016 05:49
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seems like all olympics are actually the special olympics
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Why do they even change the location every time anyway? Wouldn't it make more sense to build a really nice stadium in a convenient place and then reuse it every 4 years? Is the tourism it brings in really that big a deal?
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RatHat posted:Why do they even change the location every time anyway? Wouldn't it make more sense to build a really nice stadium in a convenient place and then reuse it every 4 years? Is the tourism it brings in really that big a deal? Who will provide IOC execs with truckloads of prostitutes if there's no bidding process every few years?
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To the host country? No. You just end up in a ton of debt from building the thing, and then you get a ton of headaches dealing with the influx of people that your infrastructure probably can't handle. To the IoC? I'm sure they get a ton of bribe money. Think about why you hardly see any games in any real countries anymore. Unless the DoJ goes after the IoC, like they did the FiFa, we may be looking at the shutting down of the Olypmics in our lifetime.
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:Can someone sum up the Sochi debacle for me Is tarp. House is tarp, roof is tarp, car is tarp, dog is tarp, trophy is tarp, snow is tarp. Is tarp yes?
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:Can someone sum up the Sochi debacle for me Is not stray rabies dog. Is mascot, da.
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Feb 25, 2016 06:58
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They should make a Olympic event out of that brazilian twister game video.
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:Can someone sum up the Sochi debacle for me
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Good news, we may not have seen the last of Sochi. Russia has been provisionally awarded the 2019 European Games, and Sochi is the proposed venue. If you didn't hear about the first European Games, I'm not surprised. Azerbaijan banned a lot of reporters from attending. Anyway it was colourful and pretty corrupt. Wikipedia posted:Most European heads of state and government refused to participate at the opening ceremony 
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Here's some pictures of the 2004 Greek Olympic stadiums taken pretty recently. If I didn't know it, I'd say they were taken in Pripyat near Chernobyl.  
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I lived in beijing just before the olympics, and you could tell when the olympic committee was visiting because the sky was suddenly blue and gorgeous
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Fonzarelli posted:I lived in beijing just before the olympics, and you could tell when the olympic committee was visiting because the sky was suddenly blue and gorgeous The babies born around the Beijing Olympics were healthier and on average weighed like an ounce more than the ones born before and after it.
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:Who are these people that care or get pumped for any of the Olympics in any capacity I mean really? I enjoy watching the Olympics. A lot of the events are fun and the athletes are impressive. I guess I don't really get 'pumped' for them though. It's pretty funny to watch the whirlwind of chaos and rioting that always consumes the host country. The Olympics are a really cool idea in theory but it would probably be for the best if they didn't exist anymore. Or maybe just have a complete overhaul of the entire system and IOC and maybe agree to have them in the same place every year. I don't know, it's a giant loving mess every single time which is a shame. You would think the world could do one loving thing together every four years and not have it be a massive disaster. E: actually if you thought that you would be pretty dumb and naive. But humanity should be able to do one single cooperative thing together, goddamnit. Two Free Toppings fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Did they make any cybersports olympics sports yet? I mean old venerable games like counter-strike or unreal tournament?
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Peebla posted:I enjoy watching the Olympics. A lot of the events are fun and the athletes are impressive. I guess I don't really get 'pumped' for them though. It's pretty funny to watch the whirlwind of chaos and rioting that always consumes the host country. This petty much sums up how I feel about the Olympics.
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:Can someone sum up the Sochi debacle for me http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/2/17/5419252/2014-sochi-olympics-cat-falls-through-ceiling-video
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I know that Sochi was hilarious and everything and Rio looks like a literal death trap in the making but was London 2012 considered shambolic too? As far as I remember it, everyone seemed pretty happy with the whole thing generally. It might just be that our press whitewashed it all for us here or something but if they were to suddenly switch venue back to London again because Rio is literally dangerous I get the feeling that people wouldn't complain that badly...
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Sekenr posted:Did they make any cybersports olympics sports yet? I mean old venerable games like counter-strike or unreal tournament? Give it time, they made Halo 5 part of the Winter X-Games this year.
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Fojar38 posted:the ioc is basically a bunch of pampered old world nobility who demand incredibly dumb bourgeouis poo poo for themselves at the expense of the host nation and for some reason nobody wants to host the olympics anymore except for despotic shitholes that run on slave labor 2022 Winter Olympics came down to Beijing or Kazakhstan. There is no snow on the mountain China wants to use, and the average snow in the deepest winter in the area is 1 cm.
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Fonzarelli posted:I lived in beijing just before the olympics, and you could tell when the olympic committee was visiting because the sky was suddenly blue and gorgeous Didn't the IOC basically force all coal-burning factories to cease operations during the olympics? That's probably why.
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bradzilla posted:Didn't the IOC basically force all coal-burning factories to cease operations during the olympics? That's probably why. No that was the chinese government. They also banned half of all cars from driving
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FiftySeven posted:I know that Sochi was hilarious and everything and Rio looks like a literal death trap in the making but was London 2012 considered shambolic too? As far as I remember it, everyone seemed pretty happy with the whole thing generally. It might just be that our press whitewashed it all for us here or something but if they were to suddenly switch venue back to London again because Rio is literally dangerous I get the feeling that people wouldn't complain that badly... London was OK because who does London have to impress? It's already a world-class metropolis full of white people. It's one of the top 5 cities of the world (you can argue the order of spots 2-5, but London would be one of them) and it already has most of the poo poo the Olympics needs like airports, clean running water, electricity, roads, etc. They also spent like 1/50th of what they spent for Sochi, so the people of London were like "ehhh, g'day mate" or whatever.
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i heard vancouver didnt lose money, i went to it and had a good time thanks for listening typign this out reminded me of the luging dude who flew off the track and died lmao
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FiftySeven posted:I know that Sochi was hilarious and everything and Rio looks like a literal death trap in the making but was London 2012 considered shambolic too?
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Watching shithole countries prepare for the Olympics is like watching a hoarder prepare for their in-laws visiting for Christmas.
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I'm curious as to how Beijing got it twice. Has any other city hosted both summer and winter?
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I think Canada would be the perfect country to install a permanent winter/summer Olympics facility.
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Frosted Flake posted:I'm curious as to how Beijing got it twice. The secret is giant bribes
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Frosted Flake posted:I'm curious as to how Beijing got it twice. 
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Mange Mite posted:The secret is giant bribes And a complete lack of interest from actual cities.
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