The Australian Olympic team is having a truly garbage time in Rio
The Australian Olympic team seem to be having a not-so-great time in Rio. In fact, it's going from bad to unfathomably garbage.
Acclimatising to a new environment so that you can out-lift, out-run and out-swim your competition is difficult at the best of times. Add to that change a serious of hazardous accidents and thefts, and it's enough to have anyone hypothesising that someone up there might really have it in for the Australian Olympians.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, four members of the Australian women's water polo team have been quarantined after presenting symptoms of a gastro-intestinal sickness and were immediately isolated from their team mates. Nothing quite like an entire team of elite athletes being struck down down with a virus that can manifest into a paralysing auto-immune disease.
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The official Rio Olympics website has described a "small fire" breaking out after someone decided it would be a great idea to discard their cigarette on a pile of rubbish in the athlete's village. The village described as "unliveable" by the Australian visitors. That same pile of rubbish also happened to be in the underground carpark of the building the Australian olympians were allocated to. *gasp*
The building was evacuated and the day was saved. Less relieving was the revelation that the fire alarms and sprinklers in the fire-stricken building had either been turned off or simply did not activate.
The fun doesn't stop at almost being burnt to death though.
Uniforms and laptops were also reportedly stolen from the marginally flammable accomodation. While not blaming anybody in particular, Chiller did say that theft was "inevitable" given how many employees were at the sites. During a media conference after the evacuation, Chiller reported that she saw three fire officers walking out of the building carrying the Australian team shirts. The shirts have been designed to be resistant to the lethal and invisible aforementioned Zika virus.
Despite the suspicious goings-on, some athletes are taking it in their stride, even proposing brand new sporting categories that incorporate our modern interests.
Why the bad luck? Are we cursed? This just will not do. #FanUpAus
