Russia you suck
 

Am I the only person who thinks this is going to be a MASSIVE CLUSTER FUCK?


http://deadspin.com/staying-in-sochi...ure-1515722114

a few people became incredible rich, i'm sure they don't care

Hahahaha !

The Mob,,,,

probably the wrong party to rip off..

:1orglaugh

That Russian diplomat or delegate or whatever, their guy overseeing the Olympic park development, says on the news that there are "twenty four thousands of new hotel rooms, apartments" etc etc, then in the next minutes reporters are saying that there are tons of reports of rooms not finished, not having running water, or dirty water coming from taps, etc.

With only two days before the first events are set to start I'd say they had four years to get this done and have left it pretty damn last-minute. I think it'll go off basically and the games will get done, clusterfuck or not. But it's anybody's guess right now as to how much national pride and international admiration Russia will glean for it's fifty billion dollar investment.

Nah no biggy.. that's what usually corruption looks like in post-communist countries ;)

Sotchi is disgusting

I hope there is a series of high death toll terrorist attacks during the sotchi olympics.

Will embarras putin and will teach the IOC and many sportsmen a lesson for selecting such a corrupt country as venue and acting like sport can ignore and should ignore things like human rights

The sotchi olympics are now projected to cost $45b usd... That is more than ALL the previous winter olympics combined
Vancouver just cost $2b

When you have 45B planned to wash you can spare some of that to bribe the voters :winkwink:

Damn ????.

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This... :2 cents:

What's the point here? Looks like pretty standard accommodations for the Olympics. Some people from 'land of the free' is trying too hard to hate on Russia

More picture of the ''ugly'' Sochi ->
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...155519&page=64
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...962848&page=16

Standard? You mean the part where they are warning reporters not to wash their face with the water. :Oh crap

was a lot more than '$2b', or what is listed as '1.7b'.. but that is when you take into account security etc

reporters? more likely attention whore clowns.

http://olympics.cbc.ca/blogs/author/...uty-sochi.html

"land of the free" has 50 year old interstate motels for $29.95 a night in better shape.

get used to it man, the british were the worst for us

Greece had the same thing....

Is anyone really surprised that Russia is a shithole that can't provide basic hospitality to guests? Or that they kill stray dogs? Or is anyone surprised that Russia has stray dogs running around near the Olympic park?

This was Putins chance to show everyone that Russia could be a world contender.. He fucked up.. LOL.

There was a whole shit load of pictures making the rounds in a imgur gallery, showing all the shit that wasn't done yet. It was just last week and had tons of pics of unfinished hotels, roads and trash everywhere.

hilarious comments on that article. i'm dying over here

Thanks for pointing it out, that's some funny shit. :thumbsup

I saw on the news that there are lots of stray dogs around the area and originally, officials were shooting the dogs dead in front of tourists because its just what they do to control the population. After an outcry, they now shoot the dogs at night. Phew!

"For the money your spending at the hotel go back across the RR track and Mom will kick the entire family out of a house for you to stay in and cook and iron for the same costs and the room will be warm. Spread the wealth!"

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it happens....

Sochi was a great fuckup to the country from the beginning. So nothing new there.

Its crazy how I think I live in NY and everything is a scam. All the road paving and construction etc. We dont have shit on what goes on in russia. I would say 50 of the 59 billion went to putin directly. about 8 of it to his underlings and maybe 1 billion actually used to build any infrastructure, if that.... Its like the wild wild west but with Rolls Royce and Bentleys instead of horse back.

http://navalny.livejournal.com/902517.html
http://navalny.livejournal.com/901650.html
http://navalny.livejournal.com/901084.html
http://navalny.livejournal.com/900762.html

Bullshit. The approximate cost of Olimic games in Shochi is 70 billion dollars. And that's not a secret for everyone here :2 cents:

What a disgrace! It's sad.

Best way to spend $45 billion ever! This is going to provide more jokes than Bush could have if he were permanently in the whitehouse!

Because of all the shit that has happened while building this event im going to watch as little as possible from the olympic games.

When someone is asking me if im going to watch the games im going to say no and tell them im not going to watch it because workers and immigrants have been tortured and everyone has not been paid for their job in full, everything about this event is massively corrupt.

Like OP says a cluster fuck is ready to happen!

Every contractor from the top to the bottom have taken their share of the gold rush, at the very bottom is the foreign immigrants (the most poor) getting the smallest share if paid at all.

Now let the games begin, so I can do something entirely different.

Sochi it is a good service, come to Siberia to understand it :thumbsup

Interesting response.

You thinks lots of innocent bystanders should be brutally murdered because the builders finished late.

Overreact much ?

Made new pal from La Presse as we struggled to find hotel. When we got to our (temporary) rooms his doorknob came off in hand

lol copters with a triple backflip!!!!

Ever met a Russian? They are laughing like hell. Russians have very little national pride in the manner you are used to.

Idiot :2 cents:

In all seriousness, who would ever want any olympic anything in their own city ever? It costs MILLIONS if not BILLIONS more than it is ever worth, total waste of money and impositions everyone.

Stay classy.

Said by someone who def have got a cut :Oh crap

I agree, but that's def not about Russians only, ever been to an Irish pub? That was a hell experience to me!

So, you will judge a book by it's cover

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh well at least in america is full of non corruption and medical care is a human right (if you have $$$)...oh and they spend billions on a sporting event? shame on them for not spending it on bombs like the USA and "democracy"....:1orglaugh:1orglaugh...yeah you go right ahead and tell them god damned ruskis how the fuck it should be done...I mean if your CT scan is not 7000$ (:1orglaugh :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh) then you obviously need terrorists to attack you ...only a non corrupt country can have 1600$ iv therapy (:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaug h) ...shiiiiiiiiit i think the USA should nuke russia just out of general principle...fucking corrupt bastards their iv is fucking free :1orglaugh

http://aattp.org/wp-content/uploads/...cal-bill-2.png

haha...funny prices...something like 5-10 times more than it should be ;-)

I am pretty sure most of it comes from country's budget, not from the city?
And you would want it to be in your city because it would become world known city that has own benefits in the long run.