The Australian team has already refused to house its athletes in the village, deeming the quality of the housing not good enough, but made no mention of Pokémon provision.
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“Problems include blocked toilets, leaking pipes, exposed wiring, darkened stairwells where no lighting has been installed and dirty floors in need of a massive clean”, the head of the Australian team, Kitty Chiller, said in a statement. According to GloboEsporte.com, Spain only has a few athletes in Rio, but the entire delegation is set to arrive this Friday, July 29th.
Argentina’s Olympic delegation is also renting apartments outside the Olympic Village for some of its athletes. “There remains much for the Rio organizing committee to do so that the living conditions meet sanitary requirements”, the country’s Olympic committee told the Associated Press.
“We had the kangaroo and the emu out front of our building in London in 2012 and we have brought them here”, he said.
Said the source speaking to GloboEsporte.com, “It’s sad, outside the village seems all ready, but actually inside are missing many things”. Labor inspectors warned on Wednesday they could fine organisers for not providing the workers with the proper legal contracts.
The preparations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the upcoming Summer Olympic Games have been anything but smooth. “There’s been some issues”, said Curt Harnett, a three-time Olympic medallist in track cycling who competed in four Games.
“The possibility that travelers returning from the Olympics may spread Zika has become a polemic issue that has led to athletes dropping out of the event, and without evidence, undue stigmatization of Brazil”, said study co-author Albert Ko, chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale.
“You can already feel the Olympic energy here in the airport, in the city, with all the smiling volunteers full of excitement”, Bach was quoted as saying by the Rio 2016 official website. The metro line to carry visitors from the centre of Rio to the distant western neighbourhood of Barra da Tijuca where the Games will be held will only be inaugurated on Saturday by interim President Michel Temer.
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Last year, the TCU released a preliminary report on the Olympics that concluded the environmental projects promised for the games would not be finished before the games began.
