Australia team exposes Rio, gets dragged by Rio's Mayor
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The Australia team will not move into the Olympic village for the time being because of problems including “blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring”, the head of the country’s delegation, Kitty Chiller, said on Sunday. Chiller said she had raised concerns on a daily basis with the organisers and the International Olympic Committee, and was “pushing hard for a solution”.
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“We’re having plumbing problems, we’ve got leaking pipes,” said Mike Tancred, the spokesman for the Australia team. “We’ve got electrical problems. We’ve got cleaning problems. We’ve got lighting problems in some of the stairwells. We did a stress test on Saturday, turned on the taps and flushed the toilets, and water came flooding down the walls.”
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Eduardo Paes, Rio’s outspoken mayor, at a press conference made light of the Australians’ complaints, saying that repairs would be made and that “I am just about to put a kangaroo in front of their building so it can jump and make them feel at home”.
