She said in a statement on the Australian Olympic website: “Due to a variety of problems in the Village, including gas, electricity and plumbing, I have decided that no Australian team member will move into our allocated building.

“Problems include blocked toilets, leaking pipes, exposed wiring, darkened stairwells where no lighting has been installed and dirty floors in need of a massive clean.”

Organisers have conceded there have been “teething troubles” and promised that crews would be “working 24 hours a day until the issues are resolved”.

But Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes responded to Australian criticism by saying the Village is “more beautiful” than Sydney for the 2000 Games and that he was about to put “a kangaroo jumping outside” to “make them feel at home”.

The New Zealand team boss Rob Waddell said he was “disappointed” the Village was not ready, adding “it hasn’t been easy”, but said with “a bit of hard work”, their facilities were ready for the first athletes arrival.

“Our team has had to get stuck in to get the job done,” said Waddell.

Italy’s Carlo Mornati said his team were hiring labourers, electricians, plumbers and bricklayers to bring the apartments “up to normal conditions as soon as possible”.

So the Olympics is running to it’s normal schedule then…

If only they’d had a bit more notice!

Was listening to this the other night, interesting insight into what it takes…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07ks07b

I’m struggling to get excited about the Olympics this time, given all the controversy… This sort of stuff included…

The organisers are so contrary – all those Russian athletes sensibly took plenty of medicine, presumably because of the Olympic virus, and now they might not be allowed to compete. Bonkers!

The whole Russia situation is an absolute fiasco. One can only imagine the corruption in the IOC, which secured the Socchi winter olympics, and the only real victims of this are the clean Russian athletes, and the sport itself. The IOC have been utterly silent over Russia’s increasingly homophobic stance (new laws announced will outlaw being ‘openly homosexual’ in Russia), and have been more than happy to take Russian money, and deal with Russian corporate interests.

he was about to put “a kangaroo jumping outside” to “make them feel at home”.

Is Boris Johnson the Mayor of Rio?

clodhopper – Member
The whole Russia situation is an absolute fiasco. One can only imagine the corruption in the IOC

This

the IOC is as much of a joke as Seb Coe’s IAAF

Have you let the Dailly Mail know ?

Danish news had a story about no Tv’s in the rooms but there will be 450 000 condoms to be handed out.

no Tv’s in the rooms but there will be 450 000 condoms to be handed out.

well people will have to make their own entertainment.

all those drugged fired up attractive young atheletes in one place… its what happens

http://time.com/7554/a-brief-history-of-sex-at-the-olympics/

its going to a place that cycling was in terms of drugs and where FIFA was in terms of corruption mixed with ineptitude

Russia decision was one of cowardice and lack of leadership – they didn’t even make a decision they simply passed the buck terrible

The Olympic Village is notorious for the amount of sexy time those guys get up to

I bet the British men come first at Olympics sex.

oh, hang on.