[DogByte6RER]

Yeah ... it'll be a Divine miracle if no athletes come out of this corrupt third-world venue uninfected and uncontaminated.

[SpaceBar]

Their logo and mascot should be a friendly looking colliform bacterium.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

the Hep-C is going to be the least of their problems. Wonder which of the athletes is going to be the first to bow out of their Olympic spot in protest?

[zek157]

Unlike Greece which went bust after their games, Brazil is broke. There’s going to be a lot more abandoned and incomplete projects.

[SkyDancer]

And there’s an Olympic event in that water as well. Plus, they’ve not finished building stuff. And I won’t go into what that icon thingie looks like.

[laplata]

I would never go to Rio and subject myself to the crowds and filth.

[rockinqsranch]

IF I were a participant in the upcoming Olympics in Brazil, I’d be a was.

[Chode]

the committee what signed off on holding the games in some turd world sh!thole should all have their finances gone over with a lice comb...

[Shadow44]

Considering the fact that the World is essentially broke, why not just cancel them?

Brazil can’t handle it, Rio’s a mess, and now there’s the Zika virus.

[KarlInOhio]

Could have been worse... Chicago was in the running. Every event would be a shooting competition.

[livius]

I think you’d be out of your mind to go there. Brazil (one of this miserable Pope’s favorites) is totally dysfunctional. BTW, this whole “Zika” thing is a fraud, but Pope Silly the First is so devoted to the UN that he’s out there hawking their message.

Brazil, for those who don’t know, is not Spanish in its background, but Portuguese. The Portuguese were big slavers, so the country has a large black population that is practically uncatechized. Portugal was sending missionaries to Brazil but a number of them, including a ship of some 60 lay and clerical Jesuit missionaries (back in the day when Jesuits were orthodox), were captured by British pirates and literally made to walk the plank. So Brazil hasn’t had a great chance to get ahead.

Anybody (any Brazilian FReeper or somebody who’s lived there recently) have any opinions or insider knowledge?

[samtheman]

Who are the corrupt officials who chose this venue? They should all be sentenced to Drowning In Sewage.

[central_va]

I stayed at a 5 star hotel in Rio and was told during check in in no uncertain terms to not drink the tap water, do not use tap water to brush my teeth and to keep my mouth tightly closed when showering. Again it was a 5 star hotel.

[ghosthost]

one drink of that water and you’d get aidszika. You would go home with a shrunken head

[LowOiL]

Why anyone would want to go to some foreign country and give up their second amendment rights is beyond me.

[butlerweave]

Zika for everyone

[TaMoDee]

Mr. Hankey, from South Park, Colorado, and family will have front row seats AND meet many new friends from Rio.

[VTenigma]

Raise your hands if you didn’t know holding the games in a third world hell hole would be a disaster. Oh, not many, not many.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

If you're an Olympic rower and even if you win gold, how much is that going to add to your annual income?

How many really big time endorsements is that going to return? And what's the chance?

So they're rowing for Obama's America in a place that looks like what the US is going to look like in a few years if we don't get a handle on immigration.

Where's the glory or honor in that?

[BBell]

Geee....Who saw this coming.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I won a gold medal in rowing...I'm a winner