Reports such as the Australian team not happy with the accommodation in the Olympic village and the Aussie squad being robbed of their team shirts and valuables are already giving a tough time to organisers.
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The fire broke out on Friday evening in the building’s underground parking lot, according to a statement from the team.
Brazilian firemen allegedly stole Zika-protective shirts from Australia’s residence during an evacuation, when a laptop was also pinched and other computer equipment rifled through.
Perhaps most frightening of all is the fact that the fire alarm didn’t even go off as it had been disabled due to “maintenance” being carried out in the athlete’s village.
Dantas also noted that many Olympic athletes do not have access to condoms in their native countries and take the freebies home after the Games.
“I did notice it and I thought “oh, maybe they have helped evacuate people and so we had given them a team shirt”.
“Basically, nearly 100 percent of the people who come into contact with this water will get infected with different illnesses, but getting sick will only happen in some of those people because it all depends on the immunity level they have”.
Chiller said she saw three people leaving with Australian shirts created to combat the Zika virus but sensed they were fire officers and did not make an immediate protest.
When Team U.S.A. comes back to the States, members will scatter back to their homes across the country. “We have a safe to keep passports and wallets, where medals will be safe”, said Chiller.
Going off the coverage in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics you would think the world’s athletes are walking into a death trap, a security nightmare, chaos or a combination of all three.
“There was no point in laying blame or saying, “could have or should have” at that point last night”, she said. Chiller suggested that the fire could have started from a contractor’s cigarette.
“They were our “Zika” shirts – long-sleeved yellow shirts that had just been delivered to the village and we had them all lined up in piles on the reception desk, in an outdoor common space”, she said.
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Australia’s chef de mission Kitty Chiller unknowingly saw three people leaving with Australian shirts – created to combat the Zika virus – but thought they were fire officers.
