But she added: “We have reminded all our team members, especially in the village, that you keep your doors locked – your bedroom door and the apartment door”. “I hope all refugee athletes continue their training as the Olympic committee and the whole worldwide society provide them the supports they need”.
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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.
‘. I did notice it and I thought “oh, maybe they have helped evacuate people and so we had given them a team shirt”‘. Mosquitoes carry the Zika virus, and many teams are using long-sleeved shirts for protection.
Borut Kolaric, an attaché for the Slovenian team who has been in the village for 10 days, said the buildings’ issues were being resolved at a rapid pace and that he encouraged his athletes to have a cooperative attitude.
The episode looks at the numerous exciting Olympic sports that will feature in the 2016 Games as well as the athletes who are preparing to compete, including Golf, Rugby 7s, synchronised swimming, judo, rowing and track and field.
“The stairwells and corridors on the first few levels filled with smoke”, Chiller said – but the smoke alarms did not go off.
Questions about the fire alarms aren’t likely to sit well with Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes, who downplayed comments by Chiller last week by offering to place a kangaroo at the Village to make Australians feel welcome. A cigarette is believed to be the cause, despite the village being a non-smoking venue.
“There is a much greater security presence than there had been at the start when there were a lot of contractors and workers in the village, getting the building done in time”, she said.
Rio has two separate firefighting entities – civil and military – and Chiller arrived at the athletes’ village midway through the evacuation. “There’s a lot of people just walking around, smoking”. We’ve now insisted that that fire alarm system is never deactivated again.
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Australian chef de mission Kitty Chiller, flanking Potent at a media conference, was troubled the 54-year-old wasn’t evacuated with about 100 other members of the Australian team. Dozens of bars, restaurants and coffee shops have set up lures that attract rare Pokémon, along with potential new patrons looking to catch them, the report said. The Australians only moved in Wednesday after maintenance workers repaired the problems.
