Paris 2024 Olympics shenanigans - The most multicultural Olympics ever.

[Tasty Tatty]

As the big even is approaching, I think it's time to start collecting all the news about how much of a disaster this is going to be, specially bc the games already started.

Feel free to add more and more news.


Athletes already robbed. Australia Cycling Team's bags were in their car and got stolen, says the tweet.

https://x.com/therealbuni/status/1816213706335744006

During the Argentina-Morocco match, Morocco fans stormed in the field. Had to be suspended and Argentina lost after two hours of time off. The lovely Moroccan fans threw bottles and firecrackers at the Argie team.

Mascherano, former player and current coach of the Olympic team spoke about the suspensions and how the team was also robbed during trainings:

https://x.com/OOCprogresismo2/status/1816176862055280650

0:30
"Someone entered during practice and we got robbed. In the Olympic Games. Thiago Almada is missing a watch, rings. During practice. In the Olympic Games. We didn't want to say anything, after the practice. Anyway, it's done. There is no point. Of course, we don't like this type of things to happen. We aren't expecting to have any favor, but neither being scammed as it happened today.

1:10
"What happened inside the field? It was a scandal. It's not some street tournament, it's the Olympic Games. You can't stop the match seven times during second half because people are invading the field. Two, three times, you have to take decisions, but seven times...!"

It's gonna be great!!

 

[Chilson]

Be in France, Get robbed.

The Olympics are always a shitshow though. Shit should have been standardized years ago with set locations for each event every time they roll around instead of having nations spend millions if not billions to ruin entire cities on garbage that will decay over the next few decades due to neglect.

Then again, I am half convinced the Olympics have evolved into an elaborate corruption scheme to launder, steal and generally waste tax dollars from whoever is hosting the event.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Shit should have been standardized years ago with set locations for each event every time they roll around instead of having nations spend millions if not billions to ruin entire cities on garbage that will decay over the next few decades due to neglect.

But who's going to pay to permanently keep up all these large hyper-specialized facilities on expensive properties that are, practically speaking, only used once every four years?

Everybody else ends up saving a lot, sure, but that one metropolitan area gets royally fucked in perpetuity.

 

[Chilson]

But who's going to pay to permanently keep up all these large hyper-specialized facilities on expensive properties that are, practically speaking, only used once every four years?

Everybody else ends up saving a lot, sure, but that one metropolitan area gets royally fucked in perpetuity.

Convert them into stadiums for other uses when the Olympics are over. Just because they are for the Olympics, doesn't mean you can't use them for anything else. The reason most of the Olympics crap falls into decay is because those cities have no use for them afterwards.

We don't need to centralize everything in one city in one nation. Spread it out and then go "we do skiing here, we do track here, we do water sports here, etc., etc.". Specifically choose nations that would make use of those facilities once the Olympics are over.

Fuck, if you want the big fuck off Olympics ceremony, just rotate which country hosts the Olympics opening and closing ceremonies and only those things. Its way cheaper and still gives the spectacle that gets politicians dicks hard.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

But who's going to pay to permanently keep up all these large hyper-specialized facilities on expensive properties that are, practically speaking, only used once every four years?

Theoretically it should be the city because they should be generating enough money by using the facilities still after the games end.

Shocker, it turns out the majority don’t care enough about sport or fitness to do that.

 

[Unstable Diffusion]

I honestly hope it goes to shit in every way possible so we get to see the government trying to save face and the citizens coping.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Convert them into stadiums for other uses when the Olympics are over. Just because they are for the Olympics, doesn't mean you can't use them for anything else. The reason most of the Olympics crap falls into decay is because those cities have no use for them afterwards.

Why haven't cities that have previously hosted the Olympics turned all the facilities into stadiums for other uses (rather than letting them fall into decay) if that's so practical?

 

[STARS158]

Be in France, Get robbed.

The Olympics are always a shitshow though. Shit should have been standardized years ago with set locations for each event every time they roll around instead of having nations spend millions if not billions to ruin entire cities on garbage that will decay over the next few decades due to neglect.

Then again, I am half convinced the Olympics have evolved into an elaborate corruption scheme to launder, steal and generally waste tax dollars from whoever is hosting the event.

I was told Rio 2016 was going to be terrible but it seems Paris just started and it's seems worse.

 

[Chilson]

Why haven't cities that have previously hosted the Olympics turned all the facilities into stadiums for other uses (rather than letting them fall into decay) if that's so practical?

Most do, in fact the most recent number I could find says that 85% of all Olympics facilities ever built are still in use. The problem is the immense initial expense, the rampant corruption/turmoil caused by building new (in my opinion unnecessary) facilities, the fact that 15% being torn down is still Billions of wasted dollars and the general decay these facilities undergo as politicians don't budget for their maintenance.

Make permanent spots for certain sports (which the facilities exist already for thanks to the above information) then politicians care a bit more about keeping them maintained at least every 4 years, while providing adequate facilities for public use.

There is no reason NOT to do this.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Convert them into stadiums for other uses when the Olympics are over. Just because they are for the Olympics, doesn't mean you can't use them for anything else. The reason most of the Olympics crap falls into decay is because those cities have no use for them afterwards.

When my city (Lima) hosted the Panamerican Games, many of the venues had to be built or rebuilt from scratch and we knew it was a big investment. After the Games, the gov. has taken over management and it's used by the current sport federations via a gov. program for athletes. Reason why in the next Panamerican Games (last year), we kept winning medals. I know Qatar has readapted the main World Cup stadium to be used regularly (or so they claimed). China still uses the Bird's Nest for different events.

It's truly not impossible to adapt these venues, it's just that the Olympic requirements for many of them makes impossible to keep them up. In our case, the main Stadium didn't need to have an "Olympic" size: It hists around 40K people vs the Bird's Nest's 91K. That's easier to take care of. Now after Colombia fucked up their own Panamerican games, we were chosen host again bc everything still works well.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Most do, in fact the most recent number I could find says that 75% of all Olympics facilities ever built are still in use. The problem is the immense initial expense, the rampant corruption, turmoil caused by building new (in my opinion unnecessary) facilities, the fact that 25% being torn down is still Billions of wasted dollars and the general decay these facilities undergo as politicians don't budget for their maintenance.

If 25% are already decayed or demolished outright and now you're putting the additional major restriction on those buildings that they have to become fully functional Olympic facilities again every four years rather than being permanently repurposed for any damn thing, it seems like a much bigger financial and logistical problem than you're making it out to be.

 

[Chilson]

If 25% are already decayed or demolished outright and now you're putting the additional major restriction on those buildings that they have to become fully functional Olympic facilities again every four years rather than being permanently repurposed for any damn thing, it seems like a much bigger financial and logistical problem than you're making it out to be.

Your not even making sense anymore. Its way easier and cheaper to do upkeep or hell even major remodeling on facilities that already exist than to build entirely new facilities.

Again this shouldn't even matter because this would happen every 4 years, which really incentivizes politicians to keep those facilities in some degree of good form for the next games rather than leaving them to rot. Hell, just doing upkeep every 4 years is better than what 99% of other buildings on the planet get.

You also don't seem to get that if you make a facility for water sports, they aren't likely to convert it into a completely different facility for something like baseball. They are probably going to keep it as an area for schools or private instructors or whatever to do water sport activities for the public.

When my city (Lima) hosted the Panamerican Games, many of the venues had to be built or rebuilt from scratch and we knew it was a big investment. After the Games, the gov. has taken over management and it's used by the current sport federations via a gov. program for athletes. Reason why in the next Panamerican Games (last year), we kept winning medals. I know Qatar has readapted the main World Cup stadium to be used regularly (or so they claimed). China still uses the Bird's Nest for different events.

It's truly not impossible to adapt these venues, it's just that the Olympic requirements for many of them makes impossible to keep them up. In our case, the main Stadium didn't need to have an "Olympic" size: It hists around 40K people vs the Bird's Nest's 91K. That's easier to take care of. Now after Colombia fucked up their own Panamerican games, we were chosen host again bc everything still works well.

That is exactly my point. If you can find regular use for such large facilities than why not use them again? The Olympics moving to different countries every time the games happen either forces the country to create those facilities from scratch or tear down facilities that have decayed into obsolescence and rebuild them for Olympic use.

 

[STARS158]

Cardboard beds

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Again this shouldn't even matter because this would happen every 4 years, which really incentivizes politicians to keep those facilities in some degree of good form for the next games rather than leaving them to rot.

How? What revenue are these properties going to bring in outside of the Olympics every four years that justifies their very expensive existence? We've already established that many of these properties fall into decay and that's without the restrictions that would necessarily have to be placed on something that has to be turned into an Olympic facility again every four years.

Once again, your plan only saves money for everybody who's NOT the permanent Olympics location and that location just gets fucked in the ass forever. I really hope you're not suggesting some kind of protection money being paid by every other large city to keep the Olympics away.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

I saw before that video and similar (other athletes showing the same) and this is really an issue because that can truly hurt your back and fuck up your performance.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Where is the Mario and Sonic game for this year?

 

[holyhandgrenade]

Cardboard beds

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The funniest part about it is they want these beds so the athletes don't fuck each other (a well known favorite pasttime of olympic athletes). Who knew the French were such sex negative prudes?

In other news an Australian tourist was just gangraped in Paris so off to a good start.

https://archive.is/YLfXo

 

[Byte Doctor]

Where is the Mario and Sonic game for this year?

You know It's bad when even Mario and Sonic Don't want to attend the Paris Olympics.

 

[N Space]

The most hilarious thing for me is the fact that more people are getting mugged compared to the 2016 Rio Olympics

 

[STARS158]