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This will be a truly jolly olympics if it matches the hotels built for it:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/06/olympic-sized-failure-journalists-revolt-over-lousy-sochi-conditions/

There is always something wrong before the olympics...

Missles on roof tops, horrific pollution worries and so on. It will pass. Reporters should realise living in bad conditions is sometimes part of the fun of travelling, no point living your western lifestyle everywhere you go waste of money otherwise.

To be fair, they only had $50 billion to spend on these games, you have to cut costs somewhere.

Three of the nine hotels set aside for the media weren’t even ready as the invasion began.

So the authors of the tweets and this article are just the vocal minority eh? :teef:

I do find it funny these guys are trying to pawn their own techno-idiocy on the people hosting the games... Your phone and computer got hacked?? Sorry, that's not really an ISP issue, so much as a, your settings are fethed up to the point where you got hacked... apparently very easily too.

Wonder how close the nearest Gulag is?? Maybe then they'd be happy they even got as much as some of them did


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Also saw a report on the state of the various venues, and the Snowboarders have already revolted. One guy, I think a Norwegian broke a collar bone going off a jump in the first practice??

They are apparently already fixing that "issue" but apparently in Soviet Russia, safety is literally the last concern for events Can't wait to see the bobsled run

I keep getting this image in my head.

As I posted in the other thread, here's a contrary opinion from one journalist.

http://triblive.com/sports/olympics/moreolympics/5457766-74/sochi-games-olympics#axzz2sbH3vWlk

Putin must have given that guy the Superbowl ring he stole.

A lot of the complaining reminds of the bitching of entitled western tourists who have never traveled in eastern Europe before.

Bingo.

 Hordini wrote:
A lot of the complaining reminds of the bitching of entitled western tourists who have never traveled in eastern Europe before.

Yep. I also love the head-lines that imply the Olympic Village somehow includes journalist accomadations.

I have a friend who works for NBC who is over there now (and has been to Eastern Europe before), and she has had only minimal complaints.

It's a shame that "It's perfectly fine" doesn't make much money as a headline.

"Sochi hotel manager ate my baby then gakked it back out and served it for lunch" Is alarming, rare, sensationalist, and very likely didn't happen but helpfully the article won't mention that.

Unfortunately people pay to read news they want to see, not news they expect to see.

Such is life in an impoverished, dictator-lead country...

At least they're not gay.

Yes, it's very funny to see the "first world problems" of some sports journalists having to live in unfinished hotels.

OTOH, the Sochi Olympics are the most expensive ever, and one would have expected that to shine through in the quality of accommodations, especially as it's the chance for Russia to get some good PR.

Honestly, I'm disgusted that people are even covering the Olympics this year, considering the social situation over there.

 Fafnir wrote:
Honestly, I'm disgusted that people are even covering the Olympics this year, considering the social situation over there.

Completely agree.

 Fafnir wrote:
Honestly, I'm disgusted that people are even covering the Olympics this year, considering the social situation over there.

Media companies are never going to pass up the chance to make a buck.

 Hordini wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
Honestly, I'm disgusted that people are even covering the Olympics this year, considering the social situation over there.

Media companies are never going to pass up the chance to make a buck.

Sadly yeah, it's become abundently clear in recent years that the media threw their moral's out with the trash long ago.

 Soladrin wrote:

Sadly yeah, it's become abundently clear in recent years that the media threw their moral's out with the trash long ago.

That's assuming they had them to begin with I think that the only difference now, compared to 10-20 years ago, they no longer care if people know this stuff, so they don't even try to gloss over it, or shine it up to look like they were doing something even more noble to begin with

If Russia is bad because a snow boarder broke a collar bone, then the last Canadian Olympics must have been really terrible...

 d-usa wrote:
If Russia is bad because a snow boarder broke a collar bone, then the last Canadian Olympics must have been really terrible...

Well, I think it's more a case where almost all the snowboarders in the downhill competition took a look at the run, and said, "nope, those jumps are too big" and some dude was dumb enough to say, "feth it, let's do this!" breaks a bone, and the rest of them say "see, told ya"

The issues were, apparently some of the run-ins to the jumps are "excessively steep" giving the riders too much speed to have enough control over the jump/on the landing. It almost sounds as if our Norwegian pioneer coulda/shoulda broke more than just a collar bone

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
If Russia is bad because a snow boarder broke a collar bone, then the last Canadian Olympics must have been really terrible...

Well, I think it's more a case where almost all the snowboarders in the downhill competition took a look at the run, and said, "nope, those jumps are too big" and some dude was dumb enough to say, "feth it, let's do this!" breaks a bone, and the rest of them say "see, told ya"

The issues were, apparently some of the run-ins to the jumps are "excessively steep" giving the riders too much speed to have enough control over the jump/on the landing. It almost sounds as if our Norwegian pioneer coulda/shoulda broke more than just a collar bone

There was a universal concern at the Vancouver Olympics that the Luge track was too fast and people ended up training on it anyway. One guy got ejected and wrapped himself around a pole and died. They made modifications and moved the starting line further up.

 d-usa wrote:

There was a universal concern at the Vancouver Olympics that the Luge track was too fast and people ended up training on it anyway. One guy got ejected and wrapped himself around a pole and died. They made modifications and moved the starting line further up.

At least with the Canadian penchant for being polite, they apologized profusely to him

Although, Russia being Russia, we can hope they gave our broken snowboarder a bottle of vodka, at the least right?

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 d-usa wrote:

There was a universal concern at the Vancouver Olympics that the Luge track was too fast and people ended up training on it anyway. One guy got ejected and wrapped himself around a pole and died. They made modifications and moved the starting line further up.

At least with the Canadian penchant for being polite, they apologized profusely to him

Although, Russia being Russia, we can hope they gave our broken snowboarder a bottle of vodka, at the least right?

Why would you have to hope? You just explained their medical system

 d-usa wrote:

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 d-usa wrote:

There was a universal concern at the Vancouver Olympics that the Luge track was too fast and people ended up training on it anyway. One guy got ejected and wrapped himself around a pole and died. They made modifications and moved the starting line further up.

At least with the Canadian penchant for being polite, they apologized profusely to him

Although, Russia being Russia, we can hope they gave our broken snowboarder a bottle of vodka, at the least right?

Why would you have to hope? You just explained their medical system

And their welfare system. And their school system. And their entertainment industry. And their transportation system. And just about everything else, really.

 Fafnir wrote:
Honestly, I'm disgusted that people are even covering the Olympics this year, considering the social situation over there.

Yeah, if only the media had displayed the same sense of morals as they did when they refused to cover the Chinese Olympics in 2012, or the German Olympics in 1936 (Godwinned )... oh wait...

You must be an extremely naive person if the thought that the press would ever not cover something like this has even seriously crossed your mind.

Those Canadians...

PhantomViper wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
Honestly, I'm disgusted that people are even covering the Olympics this year, considering the social situation over there.

Yeah, if only the media had displayed the same sense of morals as they did when they refused to cover the Chinese Olympics in 2012, or the German Olympics in 1936 (Godwinned )... oh wait...

You must be an extremely naive person if the thought that the press would ever not cover something like this has even seriously crossed your mind.

Disgust =/= Surprise

The point of being a reporter is to show up and report.