On Wednesday, parts of a mutilated body were discovered by a street vendor on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, “just meters” from the site of a volleyball arena being built for this summer’s Olympic Games, Reuters reports.
According to a report in the New York Daily News, NBC staffers have joined the growing ranks of people who flat-out refuse to go to Brazil for the summer Olympics games citing the threat of disease.
For months now, the AP has been valiantly searching for a stretch of Rio water that’s not contaminated by trash, sewage and flesh-eating bacteria and so far—nothing.
It wasn't so long ago that Boston, a highway rest stop on the road from New York to Maine, was pining for the world's spotlight and asking to host the Olympic games and generally be the center of attention. My, how things change.
Let us now update our list of civic ripoffs.
For the last two weeks, the most radical voice inside Sochi's Olympic stadiums was a wardrobe.
[The gold, silver and bronze medalists relax after the men's 50k cross-country race before the closing ceremonies on Sunday. Image by Matthias Schrader via AP.]
Something hilarious happened during the Very Pagan Olympic Opening Ceremony Extravaganza Spectacular in Greece today: the Olympic flame went out, like, immediately after they lit it.
Our Project Runway live blog is like the Winter Olympics of commenting. Check out this selection of gold medal winners from last week's edition, and then come slalom with the big guys at tonight's festivities!
Nodar Muaritashvili, a luger from Georgia (the country, not the state) died after flying off the track during a training run today. Several other athletes were also injured on the track today. This does not bode well for competition. [AP]
