Additionally, the bank said that while the Olympics would lead to a “small” impact on tourism at first, they would contribute to more tourists coming to the country in the future, especially Rio de Janeiro.
Advertisement
Gerardo Werthein, the president of the Argentina Olympic committee, said on Monday that two of five floors in his building were uninhabitable.
However, the head of the Australian Olympic team, Kitty Chiller, thanked organizers for responding promptly to her concerns by deploying hundreds of maintenance people and cleaners.
Rio 2016 says that around 2,400 individuals, 600 of them athletes, have begun staying in the village.
Chiller initially responded that the team would prefer proper plumbing than the gesture, but said the next day they would love to take the mayor up on his offer, and will be presenting him with a gift when receiving the keys to their building. The games open on August 5.
Chiller said another 50 athletes were to touch down on Tuesday night (Wednesday AEST), taking the total number on the ground in Rio to 62.
The baggies of the drug are stapled shut with a printout of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic logo.
We are less than two weeks away until the start of the Summer Olympics. “It’s not concentrated in a single building, but is a generalized problem (Spanish)”, Cayetano Cornet, chief of the Spanish delegation, said in an interview with sports newspaper Marca.
Rio’s Olympic organizers said such teething problems plagued all Olympic Games and promised that “adjustments” would be made to resolve the problems.
Advertisement
The Belarus delegation, on its website, is documenting the state of its lodgings, posting photos of dirty windows and clogged-up shower drains. It doesn’t look very welcoming.
