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Sochi would be a waste of explosives
I'm sure they doubled down on the policies just to be safe. Putin will probably come through and let the FSB loose after everyone leaves.
Tales from Sochi Winter Olympics: Incompetence
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I'm sure they doubled down on the policies just to be safe. Putin will probably come through and let the FSB loose after everyone leaves.
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
Thats a depiction of someone shooting up drugs; probably heroin or krokodilBut wth is going on in the lower right hand picture
That's ridiculousThats a depiction of someone shooting up drugs; probably heroin or krokodil
Ruutu
Rookie
Thats a depiction of someone shooting up drugs; probably heroin or krokodil
I was thinking he got the fish
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
Brown_Pride
All Star
you really gotta admire the attention to detail though. They custom fit the trim around that last fuked up step
the craftsmanship
thatrapsfan
Superstar
They've really sensationalized the hell out of this. Typical American reporters who's furthest traveling experience was likely Cancun.
lol @ making a big deal about toilets that cant take toilet paper....that's common in like 70 percent of the world
They make it seem like Olympic games hosted in the "West" are celebrations of the human spirit, positive to the communities that host them. I still remember how Atlanta was jailing and literally bussing out all their homeless population before the Summer Games.
lol @ making a big deal about toilets that cant take toilet paper....that's common in like 70 percent of the world
They make it seem like Olympic games hosted in the "West" are celebrations of the human spirit, positive to the communities that host them. I still remember how Atlanta was jailing and literally bussing out all their homeless population before the Summer Games.
I think it's supposed to be a guy shaving using toilet water.
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
you can spin it how you like. This event was clearly thrown together last minute infrastructure wise and is shaping up poorly.http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57...g-hacking-minefield-by-firing-up-electronics/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/s...te-drops-out-of-new-snowboard-event.html?_r=0
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So Far, Extreme Park Is Proving Extremely Perilous
By THE NEW YORK TIMESFEB. 4, 2014
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Nicole Parks, a moguls skier from Australia, was the latest athlete to face a violent introduction to the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park at the Sochi Olympics, where medical officials have had an alarming amount of work before the Games begin. Parks, in the photographs above, crashed near the end of her training run Tuesday night and, surprising spectators, quickly popped up and skied away.
“I broke my lenses, but I have plenty of them,” she told reporters afterward, noting that she did not consider it a bad crash.
Earlier Tuesday, the slopestyle course continued to vex snowboarders, some of whom told course officials on Monday that they considered it too dangerous. Changes were made, but a large jump near the finish produced another injury Tuesday, with Merika Enne of Finland crashing hard and leaving on a stretcher.
“She hit her head,” said Finland’s coach, Mats Lindfors.
The snowboarder Torstein Horgmo of Norway, a medal contender in slopestyle, dropped out of the Games on Monday after crashing and breaking his collarbone. Course builders made changes to some of the jumps overnight, but the course remained perilous.
“It’s intimidating,” the American Shaun White said after his training run Tuesday.
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Marika Enne of Finland left the course on a stretcher after crashing hard during a training session.
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Nicole Parks, a moguls skier from Australia, was the latest athlete to face a violent introduction to the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park at the Sochi Olympics, where medical officials have had an alarming amount of work before the Games begin. Parks, in the photographs above, crashed near the end of her training run Tuesday night and, surprising spectators, quickly popped up and skied away.
“I broke my lenses, but I have plenty of them,” she told reporters afterward, noting that she did not consider it a bad crash.
Earlier Tuesday, the slopestyle course continued to vex snowboarders, some of whom told course officials on Monday that they considered it too dangerous. Changes were made, but a large jump near the finish produced another injury Tuesday, with Merika Enne of Finland crashing hard and leaving on a stretcher.
“She hit her head,” said Finland’s coach, Mats Lindfors.
The snowboarder Torstein Horgmo of Norway, a medal contender in slopestyle, dropped out of the Games on Monday after crashing and breaking his collarbone. Course builders made changes to some of the jumps overnight, but the course remained perilous.
“It’s intimidating,” the American Shaun White said after his training run Tuesday.
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Marika Enne of Finland left the course on a stretcher after crashing hard during a training session.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/s...icmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=0
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Sochi Olympic hotels: Awful or exaggerated?
As athletes and journalists from around the world stream into Sochi, where the Winter Olympics are about to kick off, many have complained about poor infrastructure and shoddy hotels. Some of their photos are indeed damning, but, according to our Russian Observers, certain gripes have been blown out of proportion.
The photo that has received the most attention is one tweeted by a BBC journalist, showing two toilets, side by side, with only one toilet paper dispenser and with no divider.
The photo was quickly reposted by media outlets worldwide, but online sleuths pointed out that traces of a diving wall had been removed. A photographer went back later to check: indeed, it seems the toilets had been removed to turn the space into a storage room, and that the first photo had been taken in the midst of this conversion. Not the best planning, perhaps, but at least nobody will have to ask their toilet mate to pass the paper. Unless, of course, these other double toilets spotted in Sochi don’t get turned into storage spaces, too…
Photo posted on Twitter by @IlyaYashin.
Other journalists reported that their hotels did not have water, or that if they did, it came out yellow.
Not pleasant, certainly, but not uncommon, according to our Observer Anastasia, who lives in Russia:
Hot water cuts are frequent throughout Russia. And when this happens, the water often comes back yellow at first. In any case, you should avoid drinking tap water in most Russian cities!
Also not uncommon, Anastasia says, is being asked to throw toilet paper in a bin instead of the toilet, which shocked some foreign visitors. (In fact, this is a widespread practice in many countries.)
Anastasia, like many of our Russian Observers, was not shocked by these inconveniences:
While we might have liked to see more efforts made in Sochi, this is really not different than what we see in hotels throughout Russia – no better, no worse.
Another Russian Observer, who preferred to stay anonymous, adds:
Russians can talk for ages about the problem of hotels – even in Moscow, it’s impossible to find a decent hotel unless it’s 5 stars and super expensive. Cheaper hotels are more like barracks; for inexplicable reasons, there isn’t really much in between. And in Sochi, it’s just the same; it seems the people who build these hotels are more interested in making money than in their clients’ comfort!
According to this CNN sports journalist, his team had reserved 11 hotel rooms, only to be given one room upon arrival in Sochi.
Our Observer Dmitry Kolezev found that despite some nitpicking, visitors’ jokes were overall quite funny:
To me, these jokes are not disrespectful for the Russian people themselves; they’re only highlighting the fact that so much money has been spent in Sochi while we have so many other problems that need fixing: bad roads, bad hospitals, bad schools… [Russian authorities have spent approximately 37 billion euros to transform the town into an Olympic resort] And after so much money was spent, the conditions at Sochi are still poor. So what can we do? Just laugh, because we Russians laugh even in bad situations!
Not all were amused, however. Ivan Anisimov says:
I'd love to see other countries create Olympics village from scratch like Russia did - let's see if everything would be perfect there!
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http://observers.france24.com/content/20140205-russia-sochi-lodgings-hotel-exaggerated
Sochi Olympic hotels: Awful or exaggerated?
As athletes and journalists from around the world stream into Sochi, where the Winter Olympics are about to kick off, many have complained about poor infrastructure and shoddy hotels. Some of their photos are indeed damning, but, according to our Russian Observers, certain gripes have been blown out of proportion.
The photo that has received the most attention is one tweeted by a BBC journalist, showing two toilets, side by side, with only one toilet paper dispenser and with no divider.
The photo was quickly reposted by media outlets worldwide, but online sleuths pointed out that traces of a diving wall had been removed. A photographer went back later to check: indeed, it seems the toilets had been removed to turn the space into a storage room, and that the first photo had been taken in the midst of this conversion. Not the best planning, perhaps, but at least nobody will have to ask their toilet mate to pass the paper. Unless, of course, these other double toilets spotted in Sochi don’t get turned into storage spaces, too…
Photo posted on Twitter by @IlyaYashin.
Other journalists reported that their hotels did not have water, or that if they did, it came out yellow.
Not pleasant, certainly, but not uncommon, according to our Observer Anastasia, who lives in Russia:
Hot water cuts are frequent throughout Russia. And when this happens, the water often comes back yellow at first. In any case, you should avoid drinking tap water in most Russian cities!
Also not uncommon, Anastasia says, is being asked to throw toilet paper in a bin instead of the toilet, which shocked some foreign visitors. (In fact, this is a widespread practice in many countries.)
Anastasia, like many of our Russian Observers, was not shocked by these inconveniences:
While we might have liked to see more efforts made in Sochi, this is really not different than what we see in hotels throughout Russia – no better, no worse.
Another Russian Observer, who preferred to stay anonymous, adds:
Russians can talk for ages about the problem of hotels – even in Moscow, it’s impossible to find a decent hotel unless it’s 5 stars and super expensive. Cheaper hotels are more like barracks; for inexplicable reasons, there isn’t really much in between. And in Sochi, it’s just the same; it seems the people who build these hotels are more interested in making money than in their clients’ comfort!
According to this CNN sports journalist, his team had reserved 11 hotel rooms, only to be given one room upon arrival in Sochi.
Our Observer Dmitry Kolezev found that despite some nitpicking, visitors’ jokes were overall quite funny:
To me, these jokes are not disrespectful for the Russian people themselves; they’re only highlighting the fact that so much money has been spent in Sochi while we have so many other problems that need fixing: bad roads, bad hospitals, bad schools… [Russian authorities have spent approximately 37 billion euros to transform the town into an Olympic resort] And after so much money was spent, the conditions at Sochi are still poor. So what can we do? Just laugh, because we Russians laugh even in bad situations!
Not all were amused, however. Ivan Anisimov says:
I'd love to see other countries create Olympics village from scratch like Russia did - let's see if everything would be perfect there!
Contributors
Team Observers
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http://observers.france24.com/content/20140205-russia-sochi-lodgings-hotel-exaggerated
Journalists share Sochi hotel horror stories, but many Olympians 'haven't had a problem'
http://www.today.com/sochi/journali...-stories-many-olympians-havent-had-2D12057959
http://www.today.com/sochi/journali...-stories-many-olympians-havent-had-2D12057959