No, they had 7.
Probably closer to 15+ years of planning, considering they made a bid for Sochi to host in 2002.
lol terrible
SOCHI, Russia (AP) – Olympic fans of the world, where are you?
Sochi is (more or less) ready for you to come to its Winter Games. Thousands of athletes, soldiers, journalists and herds of smiley volunteers are in place, eager to help.
So far, though, it seems like the only spectators milling about are Russian.
Dina Kobolenko is waiting for you at her tourist information stand near the Sochi train station, armed with maps of this subtropical resort on the Black Sea. She says that as of two days before the Games, she’d seen only a single foreigner - a South Korean. They couldn’t understand each other, though, so had to communicate in sign language.
Fears about terrorism and the hassle of reaching Sochi from points abroad may be keeping some foreigners away - and undermining Vladimir Putin’s plans to transform Sochi into a magnet for international tourism.
A train traveling between Olympic sites and downtown Sochi cheerily announces to visitors in English: “We wish you a pleasant journey!” But on a recent ride, its seats were half empty. And a sweep through four train cars found … not a single foreign fan.
This got me thinking. If you have the chance, would you go to the Olympics in Russia?
Fuck no. There just doesn’t seem to be anything truly appealing there aside from the games themselves. The time and money could be spent going to much better places.
The US already has their propaganda machine going talking about fucking toothpaste bombs. They clearly want this to be a bad show for Putin.
I’d go.
Nope. Even if someone paid me I wouldnt go. They suck at driving, they beat you first then ask questions later…like “do you want another beating” and the fact that they have a bulls eye on them would make me says no thanks
You can have all my nopes on that one.
Also just saw this from Canada, in response to the anti-gay discussion going on over there…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effb2JYiKXM ( Still not sure how to embed! lol)
Yeah this shit is rather hilarious I was reading about all of it on deadspin yesterday.
I feel bad for the athletes/families though. Them and the stray dogs.
Yeah, really sucks to be a stray dog in Sochi right now.
Yeah apparently they have “murder squads” going out to kill stray dogs? WTF?!
Yea thats pretty gay
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I like the massage chairs
10 minutes into the opening ceremony for the first thing to go wrong.
UGH NO WAY^^
THAT BLOWS
SOMEONES GETTING A BEAT DOWN
They lost a continent! lol That is OK I don’t think Africa has any winter Olympics teams anywho.