Sochi Olympics should be fun

[KevinNYC]

The Sochi Olympics are say to be the most expensive ever and have cost $51 billion. Journalists are arriving at unfinished hotels with dogs wandering in and out of rooms.



I wonder what Putin's cut of that $51 billion is.

[KevinNYC]

Why's he your boy?

[Meticode]

This one had me rolling...

https://twitter.com/StacyStClair/sta...36725341798402

The update after water restored: https://twitter.com/StacyStClair/sta...50673977913344

[KevinNYC]

Steals super bowl rings, doesn't wear a shirt, poisons people, chills with fedor, all around badass. Wish he was our prez

And you're surprised a little public works corruption?

[gigantes]

you want a dictatorship, macho?


anyway, don't forget... judo master.

[KevinNYC]

what?

Putin and his friends are lining their pockets with money that was intended for things like hotels and roads and ski lifts. I would not want to be a ski jumper this year.

Tired of hearing reports about alleged corruption and budget overruns, some Russian citizens have given the 2014 Sochi Olympics a nickname.
Kickbacktiada.
The Games, which begin Friday, rank as the most expensive in Olympic history with an estimated cost of more than $50 billion and counting.
A recent study by a Russian watchdog group alleges that organizers paid far more than the going rate for numerous venues built in and around the Black Sea resort. One former official fled the country and has been accused of embezzlement.
"Athletes are not the only people who compete in Sochi," the Anti-Corruption Foundation report stated. "Officials and businessmen also took part in the Games and turned them into a source of income."

[KevinNYC]

I made that ski jumper joke before seeing this in that article.

Akhmed Bilalov, was in charge of building the RusSki Gorki ski jumping center, where spending had ballooned to $267 million, more than six times higher than originally estimated.
After his dismissal, Bilalov left the country and was accused of embezzlement.

[KevinNYC]

Winter Olympics are lame anyway, besides hockey.

Should be called the Rich White Kid Sporting Events.

[fiddy]

inb4 jihadist




no fishing in the toilet

[tomSR.]

[B]winter or summer, Olympics suck.......only ones winning are China

[MMM]

Holy shit.

And yet America still always wins the most gold medals.

except for 4 years ago
don`t think there will be a repeat performance by Canada this olympics though.

[fiddy]

Holy shit.

And yet America still always wins the most gold medals.

China abuse some of their children athletes to perform better, but still dont have the sport facilities and equipment the U.S. athletes do, thats the difference IMO.

[LJJ]

[QUOTE=tomSR.][B]winter or summer, Olympics suck.......only ones winning are China

[tomSR.]

Gymnastics isn't at the winter olympics fool. Besides, which country won the women's team gymnastics gold last time? That's right. But I guess when the US trains their child athletes hard it's called freedom.

you don

[knickballer]

Eh, really don't care and the only reason people are making a big deal is because the games are played in Russia. If it was played in South Korea no one would care about the "conditions"

When driving I hear some of the stupidest shit about Socchi. One guy was talking about how there's packs of stray dogs on the streets of Socchi and that it's dangerous. Well, maybe it's because Russia doesn't kill off stray dogs....

From the pictures I saw and from what I read Socchi seems to be a beautiful city. Very lavished city, tourist city and apparently the "Monaco" of Russia.