Concerns for global spread of Zika mean Rio de Janeiro Olympics must not proceed

Re:Concerns for global spread of Zika mean Rio de Janeiro Ol... by zodPod on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:01AM (#11675937)

I've thought this too. They pick some of the weirdest places to try to host this stuff. I guess they're trying to bring the areas up or something but if the place can't handle daily life what makes anyone think they can handle a big event like this?

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Re:Concerns for global spread of Zika mean Rio de Janeiro Ol... by douche on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:30AM (#11676194)

Nobody else is willing to do it/bribe the IOC sufficently. I'm really glad Boston bailed.

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Re:Concerns for global spread of Zika mean Rio de Janeiro Ol... by icebraining on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:31AM (#11676200)

How is Rio a "weird place"? They're in a bad situation right now, as any city with an outbreak of a virus and with a political crisis would be, but it's major world metropolis of 12M people with plenty of international business visitors and a GDP of 200 billion USD. They accommodate 900k tourists during Carnival alone.

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Re:Concerns for global spread of Zika mean Rio de Janeiro Ol... by exDM69 on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:50PM (#11676951)

I presume that the parent is referring to the locations of the Olympic venues around Rio, which are scattered around the outskirts of the city.

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