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| Olympic Sh!tshow - Soccer Star Sez 'Stay Away!' |
| 2016-05-11 |
| It's gonna get UGLY! Brazil soccer great Rivaldo is telling tourists to stay away from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro because of the danger of endemic violence. Rivaldo posted the warning on his Instagram account and alluded to the case of a 17-year-old woman killed on Saturday in a shootout. "Things are getting uglier here every day," Rivaldo wrote. "I advise everyone with plans to visit Brazil for the Olympics in Rio -- to stay home. You'll be putting your life at risk here. This is without even speaking about the state of public hospitals and all the Brazilian political mess. Only God can change the situation in our Brazil." The Olympics open in just under three months. In a recent statement, Amnesty International said at least 11 people were killed in police shootings in Rio's impoverished favelas in April. It said at least 307 people were killed by police last year, accounting for 20 percent of the homicides in the city. Violence is one in a long line of problems facing South America's first Olympics. Although venues are largely ready, the Zika virus, water pollution, and lukewarm tickets sales are worrying organizers. In addition, Brazil is in its deepest recession in decades and President Dilma Rousseff is fighting impeachment. It'll be their last for a few generations. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #4 I don't think he's telling the competition to stay away, but the spectators. |
| Posted by: Charles 2016-05-11 19:37 |
| #3 I guess he wants the competition to stay away so he has a better chance for a Gold? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-05-11 19:29 |
| #2 Dunno. Could revive some of the original emotions the Greeks had. You know, like the original Marathon. set some hurdles out with some skirmishers, form a thin phalanx with shot put, javelin, archers behind them. Sprinters on the wings to hold the flank or pursue. Hold the regatta teams near to the coast to prevent being flanked and/or resupply by water. Not sure what to do with the meterball players. Maybe have them flop around pretending to be casualties, garnish sympathy or something. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-05-11 17:17 |
| #1 As someone who stood in Daley Plaza only to find out Chicago would not be hosting the boondoggle in 2016, it warms my heart and triggers my "I told ya so" reflex. I have gone out of my way to travel to the last 2 Summer Olympics cities about 2 months before each of them on the premise that these cities would never look better than prior to a host city event... I avoided Rio based on the calculus of crime and Zika. No doubt in my mind Chicago would have been a "corruptapaloosa" but I am confident we would have showed real well and maybe given the gangs a reason to stop shooting at each other for a couple of weeks. |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2016-05-11 16:24 |