The mayor of Rio de Janeiro has offered to get a kangaroo for the Australian Olympic team after they refused to move into the Athletes’ Village over safety fears.
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Australian officials discussed concerns with Olympic officials in Rio on a daily basis, they said, adding that they would reassess the situation on Sunday evening.
Meanwhile, the founder of the village’s supplier of furniture says that the Rio accommodation looks “downright five-star” as it features swimming pools and balconies reported a recent CNN article. “I haven’t had to concern myself with any of the leakages of the water or anything, but walking in there I just couldn’t wipe the smile off my face”, she said. She said the test failed, “water came down walls, there was a strong smell of gas in some apartments and there was “shorting” in the electrical wiring”.
Simmerling, who will be competing in track cycling at Rio, was a member of the Canadian freestyle ski-cross team at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and the Alpine ski team at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.
“I am reasonably confident that we will be able enter the village on Wednesday”, she said.
The Australian delegation was very critical of the condition of the Olympic Village and upon arriving in Brazil on the weekend made a decision to transfer the athletes to hotels.
The Olympic Village located in the Barra da Tijuca district in the west of Rio de Janeiro consists of 31 buildings.
Chiller told reporters that this was the worst Olympic Village she’d seen in five Games. Sweden’s women’s soccer team decided not to move into the village; Italy, the Netherlands, and the USA reportedly paid for cleaning services.
Eduardo Paes suggested “a kangaroo in front of the Australian apartments in the Olympics village might appease complaints of “uninhabitable” quarters”. He said he was tempted to put “a kangaroo jumping outside” to make them happy.
“We have 630 men working to fix the problems at the Olympic Village”, Andrada said in comments tweeted by the government’s Olympic account.
Carlos Nuzman, the president of the Olympic organizing committee, said that the problems would be fixed shortly. In the final stretch before the Games start August 5, more than 60,000 troops took positions across the city, part of an overall contingent of more than 85,000 soldiers, police and other security forces that will be deployed for the event at a time of heightened fears after recent massacres in Germany, France and the United States. Moreover, the US, Italy and Netherlands has paid to hire workers to finish their apartments.
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The arriving delegations from different countries have mixed hopes and reviews.
