#sochi fail

Sochi Problems Just Got Real: U.S. Olympian Spots a Wild WOLF in her Hotel

So now the dirty water and the broken toilets don’t seem so bad.

Not after U.S. luger Kate Hansen spotted a wild WOLF waltzing around her hotel hallway.

She posted a video of the wild animal roaming around and thankfully, wasn’t hurt.

To repeat what she said, #sochifail:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8vv8jc-P4w&w=640&h=390]

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NO LAUGHING MATTER: Clown…

Ok, it's getting into my nerves seeing people complain about the #sochifail tag.

I see people all over twitter and tumblr saying that Russia has far more problems than what's going on in Sochi, and that the imperialistic Americans shouldn't make fun of Sochi, because Russia is a poor country, what do they expected?

Let's see what's wrong with this, shall we (look at me defending the US)?

Countries pay around 100k $ to be able to BID for a chance to host an Olympic event. Once they win the bid, together with the Olympic Committee and several sponsors, they come up with a budget.

The initial  budget for Sochi was 12 BILLION dollars. It's a good budget, especially if you consider that winter Olympics are far cheaper than the summer ones, since it has far less participants, far less countries, and far less events.

Then the budget slipped. It always does, but Sochi turned out costing 50 BILLION DOLLARS!

Lets see how that fairs in the top 8 most expensive Olympic events:

8th Seoul 1988 (Summer): $7.7 bn

7th Vancouver 2010 (Winter): $8.3 bn

6th London 2012 (Summer): $14 bn

5th Barcelona 1992 (Summer): $15.4 bn

4th Nagano 1998 (Winter): $17.6 bn

3rd Athens 2004 (Summer): $18.2 bn

2nd Beijing 2012 (Summer): $42.6 bn

1st Sochi 2014 (Winter): $50 bn

See how the UK pulled a lavishing Summer event spending 4 times less than Sochi?

So, yeah, what's happening in Sochi has nothing to do with how poor Russia indeed is. If Russia had been frugal with its expenses, it hadn't spend $50,000,000,000!

So, what happened that they spent so much, yet everything is so cheap? Well, there's the fact that Sochi is quite warm, so to be able to host a Winter Sports Event, they had to build a new road and a new railroad to a nearby skiing resort.

But that doesn't cost 38 billion dollars.

Those $38 billion didn't go to the poor people of Sochi. They certainly didn't go to the luxury resort, which was supposed to attract rich tourists and help bust employment and local commerce of the very poor region and that was supposed to be the result of the games, since heating in the ceiling, power sockets above the door and cardboard bathroom doors are a far cry from luxury.

No.

According to opposition figures Leonid Martynyuk and Boris Nemtsov  $30bn of the budget went missing in "kickbacks and embezzlement" to close associates of Putin, and they claim the Games have turned into a "monstrous scam".

Those tweets in the #sochifail may be hilarious, but they're not, unlike what Kasparov and others say, shallow and stupid. What they are is written testimony and photographic evidence of something veryVERY serious.

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