# What happened to all those Olympic problems? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2016, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-olympic-problems/762041 "2016-08-07T14:48:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-olympic-problems/762041/21 "2016-08-08T21:24:28Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > The US basketball team is staying on a ship. They aren’t in the Olympic village. It’s their loss. They are missing out on a lot of comradeship and a lifetime of memories. Bullshit. The only thing they _might_ be missing out on is the rampant sex that goes on in the Olympic Village. Comradeship is bullshit and they’ll have plenty of memories regardless. Better to compete and come home whole and un-contaminated than stay in the Village and catch who knows what from the water, etc. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-olympic-problems/762041/22 "2016-08-08T22:41:33Z")
The basketball team doesn’t ever stay in the Olympic village anyways. This isn’t something new for Rio. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-olympic-problems/762041/23 "2016-08-09T00:27:08Z")
The Athens Olympics were also not finished/constructed when it began. It went fine in the end. It always goes pretty much fine in the end. Well, not always, but for the most part. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-olympic-problems/762041/24 "2016-08-10T03:20:41Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > So far, the game facilities seem fine. But the pollution issues won’t be as noticeable on our TVs. and two days later… [Rio Olympics Diving Pool Mysteriously Changes From Blue To Green](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rio-pool-blue-green_us_57aa6278e4b0db3be07c36ab) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-olympic-problems/762041/25 "2016-08-10T18:39:17Z")
[Here](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/sports/olympics/rio-games-2016-beyond-the-tv-screen.html)’s an article from The New York Times that goes into some of the problems, many of which you’d only see if you were there in person. The problems range from the minor (very few promotional signs are in place around the city, as compared to the many you’d expect for an event such as this) to the less minor (transportation among the sites is poor so that it might take two hours to get from Copacabana beach to the Equestrian Center 25 miles away) to the scary (the criminals, pickpockets and so forth). ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-olympic-problems/762041/26 "2016-08-10T19:29:50Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Swimmers getting sick from the bad water isn’t going to show for a while. Pool water is going to be filtered (he says before the diving pool turned green). Only four events have swimmers in open water - the men’s and women’s triathlon, and the men’s and women’s 10K “marathon” open water swim. Those are all next week (swimming on Monday and Tuesday; triathlon on Thursday and Saturday). ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-olympic-problems/762041/27 "2016-08-10T19:33:23Z")
Sochi has toilets now … ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-olympic-problems/762041/28 "2016-08-14T17:48:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Four U.S. swimmers, including Ryan Lochte, were robbed in Rio Saturday night, the USOC said Sunday morning. > > “According to four members of the U.S. Olympic Swimming Team (Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, Jimmy Feigan and Ryan Lochte), they left France House early Sunday morning in a taxi headed for the Olympic Village,” USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said in a statement. “Their taxi was stopped by individuals posing as armed police officers who demanded the athletes’ money and other personal belonings. All four athletes are safe and cooperating with officials.” > > Brazilian swimmer Thiago Pereira’s representative’s Flávio Perez said earlier that the incident happened after a birthday party at a Brazilian club. [http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/international/ct-rio-olympics-ryan-lochte-spt-20160814-story.html](http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/international/ct-rio-olympics-ryan-lochte-spt-20160814-story.html) But to emphasize it was only 4 U.S. athletes and none of them were killed! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-olympic-problems/762041.md?page=1)