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Olympics organizers in Rio do Janeiro struggling with tickets, 50% remain unsold
With five months to go before the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian organizers are struggling to sell tickets for South America’s first games. The IOC president Thomas Bach said the locals will buy up tickets at the last minute. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBrasileiro should buy the other 50%
Mar 05th, 2016 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0this will keep all those nasty foreigners out.
I'll buy the tickets have already been sold.
Mar 05th, 2016 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0To make sure that no idiot Saxon come to my land!
Get out, USA!
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions”
Mar 05th, 2016 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0(The saying is thought to have originated with Saint Bernard of Clairvaux who wrote (c. 1150), “L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés ou désirs” (hell is full of good wishes or desires). An earlier saying occurs in Virgil's Aeneid: ”facilis descensus Averno (the descent to hell is easy)”.
How very fucking apt.
I am amazed they have managed 47%, must mostly be locals who still have money.
Mar 05th, 2016 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now they reckon possibly zika can be passed by other types of mosquitos, types that bite at night, they simply do not have zika covered.
Mar 05th, 2016 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Athletes will be required to use plastic knives and forks, and they are stocking banana leaves so they can wipe their bum with something.
IT IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE.
Brazilian Government Policies over years have contributed to this sorry state, time to pay the price and be remembered as the worst Olympics in modern history for poor organisation.
At least the beer should still be served cold.
piss cold horse serves?
Mar 05th, 2016 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEq1E5c3eGo&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=4
Brasshole, put this into a sentence........twat you a are
Mar 05th, 2016 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Related news...Lula and Rousseff have been entered for the high jump...
Mar 05th, 2016 - 03:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did not understand?
Mar 05th, 2016 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0hahahaha
This just might ho in the record book as the biggest failed Olympics recorded. Choose your poison, zika, dengue or the polluted water.
Mar 05th, 2016 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BRasshole
Mar 05th, 2016 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To honour you, given that you'll buy all the unsold tickets, and thus save the Rio Olympic Games from losing money, you will be served up with a nice glass of cool garbage water, fresh from the Lagoa ....
After all, if instead of cold beer, you are accustomed to drinking cold horse piss, you should enjoy it.
Captain Poppy
Mar 05th, 2016 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0as the biggest failed Olympics recorded,
you may well be correct.
With the way the Olympics are going, the may travel the path of the world's fair if the keep handing it out to incompetent and impoverished nations just to screw it up.
Mar 05th, 2016 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Months away and not even half the tickets are sold.
They will probably fix the events to give the improvised nations chance.
Mar 05th, 2016 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a waste..
You can be sure that the State of Rio, along with the Federal government will spend whatever they think they have to in order to try make the Games a success - doesn't mean they will be - even if it means defunding essential activities, far more important to the population, and despite the fact they are technically broke..... salaries of public servants are months behind, trying to be attended in public hospitals or emergency rooms has become a hopeless endeavour . People are dying on the floors of the corridors before they can get medical attention......and fat Dilma sustains that Brazil's public health system is comparable to the best in the world......that is because she, the 9-fingered toad and their cronies, all have the best private health plans in the top hospitals while the general population takes months to even mark an appointment with one of the so-called 'doctors' brought over from Cuba (Programa Mais Médicos, a gimmick to get money out of the country by the PT) ), whom in reality are no more than glorified nurses.
Mar 06th, 2016 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The unsold tickets is a minor problem in comparison to the capital which went down the drain on the overpriced, incomplete and abandoned structures - most of which will never be completed and neither will be used after the international events.
Mar 07th, 2016 - 07:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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