@AaronMk  
Haha, that’s funny. Oh Brazil, you so crazy.

@Nightweaver20xx
 
Not to mention the Khakier who got thrown into the river when he boated over a submerged couch.

@AaronMk  
Oh yeah they did didn’t they. Woops.

@Nightweaver20xx
 
I’ve actually been catching plenty wind of Olympian mishaps. Such as the stray bullet that tore through the press booth at one event, the continuing blame game of why the diving pool turned green, and the two people I know of shot near the Olympic events.

Why has news coverage of these embarrassing disaster of a Games stopped covering the rampant crime, corruption, filth and pollution that plagues that city? There’s so much of it that you step literally 5 feet outside of the Olympic Village and you get robbed. If you dip your head under the water, you WILL get a bacterial infection. You saw plenty of that coverage before the Olympics, but now that they’re underway, every single news organization seems to have magically stopped covering problems like that entirely, in favor of showing off shiny medals and stadiums that will be empty 6 months after the Games are over.

@Background Pony #3E95
 
Loving the 2016 Rio Olympics so far. Just as Danny Boyle advised the Brazil bods, re. opening ceremony ‘Don’t try to be better, just be different’. And speaking as a Brit, yours was exactly that. Great stuff! I was Salsa-ing so much, it was all my friends present could do to stop dipping their crisps into me! (Eh?!) And as for the cauldron itself, well…:
 

 
…a unique form of Praising the Sun indeed. Celestia would approve!
 
It’s right up there in the surprise stakes with 2000 Sydney’s method of lighting the cauldron etc. Heh, I wonder what it’ll be like in four years time…?! ‘Come to Tokyo’:
 

 
‘We have Gundams’

@Ardashir
 
I don’t know if that’s the whole team or part of it, but there is at least a contingent of American atheletes not even sleeping in Rio. They’re off-shore.

By the by, can anyone confirm the rumor I heard from my brother that the American athletes aren’t in the Olympic Village, they’re sleeping in a cruise ship offshore every night?

@Whonk  
That sounds like the old gimmick when one guy spills something awful on you, and his apologetic friends get you nasty wet clothes off, robbing you in the process.

@AaronMk  
Another guy was the victim of an advanced Brazilian mugging technique where one mugger puked on him and his accomplice ran in and stole his luggage while he was distracted.

@AaronMk
 

@Lunalove  
It would be nice it there was a pony version of Rio de Janeiro in Equestria… It could look like the city between 1920-1970. You know, before everything became a mess! I’m lucky to live here (I was born here, I can’t do much with this fact) without having any harm from the bad things that are making here a bad place to live.

 
Puncess Carlostia: ‘Rio De Janeighro.’

@Whonk  
Ye gods. I must be dead from the neck up if I missed all that.
 
ISIS is threatening to attack as well (but to be fair they couldn’t possibly make things worse).
 
I hope we don’t have some ISIS guy out there reading this and thinking, “Sounds like a dare to me, infidel.”

@AaronMk  
They’re gonna need those condoms with the Zika risk.
 
Or maybe not. Maybe they won’t even do what athletes normally do in the Olympic Village. Maybe they’ll be too busy quarantining themselves.

@Whonk
 
One of the teams (I forget which) were also robbed wholesale of their laptops when someone pulled an alarm and told them there was a fire in the basement. When they left a group of people broke into the apartments and stole their computers and left before they could return.
 
But at least the IOC issued each athlete an insane number of condoms!

@Ardashir  
Well, the water where the swimming and boating events is apparently so polluted that it’s literally over a million times the safe limit for Californian beaches. Athletes are being advised to not put their head below the water, because three teaspoons of the water (or tablespoons, I forget) is apparently enough to contact serious illnesses. The Brazilian government stopped paying the police and their hospital staff at some point and local crime rates have shot through the roof (I think two athletes have already been mugged). A bridge meant for the biking event collapsed from being hit by waves, and the conditions in the athlete housing are so terrible (non-functioning toilets, beds and sinks falling apart) several athletes are refusing to use them. Then there’s the Zika virus, which is asymptomatic in 80% of known cases and a relatively minor annoyance in the remaining 20%–except that carriers have an increased chance of stillbirth and the virus is currently incurable. ISIS is threatening to attack as well (but to be fair they couldn’t possibly make things worse). Most of the Russian athletes were banned due to a doping scandal.
 
To top it all of, this morning it was revealed that officials LOST THE KEYS TO THE STADIUM and had to break into it with some bolt cutters.

@AaronMk  
I haven’t been following the Olympics. How much of a train wreck do they expect?

As a person from Rio de Janeiro, I’m sure we’re going to get a lot of memes from this huge mess.

@Background Human
 
Skin will melt as tension rise as well!

@AaronMk  
I’m excited for the sailing and rowing events. From what I’ve heard about the water quality, it’ll be a literal shitshow.

Ready to see how much of a train wreck this’ll be, if the word out of Rio is any indication.