Russia gambles on Sochi 2014 legacy

Meoima · Jul 11, 2014

(SFC) The legacy of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games may include gambling after the Russian parliament voted to add Sochi to the list of areas that allow the otherwise illegal activity.
Read more: http://www.sportsfeatures.com/olympicsnews/story/51061/russia-gambles-on-sochi-2014-legacy

plushyfan · Jul 11, 2014

Meoima said:
(SFC) The legacy of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games may include gambling after the Russian parliament voted to add Sochi to the list of areas that allow the otherwise illegal activity.
Read more: http://www.sportsfeatures.com/olympicsnews/story/51061/russia-gambles-on-sochi-2014-legacy

I wonder there were no casinos in Sochi????

Meoima · Jul 11, 2014

plushyfan said:
I wonder there were no casinos in Sochi????

Maybe because Sochi is a remote place? But I don't live there so I don't know for sure. It's good to know that they are very practical about this matter, though.

plushyfan · Jul 11, 2014

Meoima said:
Maybe because Sochi is a remote place? But I don't live there so I don't know fore sure. It's good to know that they are very practical about this matter, though.

Sochi is a famous and expensive holiday destination. Without casinos? The Russians sometimes are so weird.

pangtongfan · Jul 11, 2014

The Sochi Olympics have no "legacy" to begin with. Horrible accomodations, poor transportation, terrible crowds for nearly every sport that were ridiculously pro Russian, the figure skating scandal that is the biggest memory of the Games even for non skating fans, a huge deficit, and a bunch of ghost stadiums. Its only legacy is rivalling the Atlanta Summer Olympics as the worst modern day Olympics ever. Well that and the pictures of the 10 or 12 washroom communal toilets that pretty sum up Russia's state these days in general.

plushyfan · Jul 11, 2014

pangtongfan said:
The Sochi Olympics have no "legacy" to begin with. Horrible accomodations, poor transportation, terrible crowds for nearly every sport that were ridiculously pro Russian, the figure skating scandal that is the biggest memory of the Games even for non skating fans, a huge deficit, and a bunch of ghost stadiums. Its only legacy is rivalling the Atlanta Summer Olympics as the worst modern day Olympics ever. Well that and the pictures of the 10 or 12 washroom communal toilets that pretty sum up Russia's state these days in general.

This isn't true, pangtongfan! This was the western especially the US media's lie. And I'm not Rusian.

YLFan · Jul 11, 2014

Pangtongfan set some kind of record for most lies in a paragraph.

plushyfan · Jul 11, 2014

YLFan said:
Pangtongfan set some kind of record for most lies in a paragraph.

:agree:

gravy · Jul 11, 2014

pangtongfan said:
The Sochi Olympics have no "legacy" to begin with. Horrible accomodations, poor transportation, terrible crowds for nearly every sport that were ridiculously pro Russian, the figure skating scandal that is the biggest memory of the Games even for non skating fans, a huge deficit, and a bunch of ghost stadiums. Its only legacy is rivalling the Atlanta Summer Olympics as the worst modern day Olympics ever. Well that and the pictures of the 10 or 12 washroom communal toilets that pretty sum up Russia's state these days in general.

http://gossipsochi.com/

The majority of the things you read that were wrong in Sochi were made up and hyped up especially in the US. Anything to denigrate Russia... :rolleye:

I suspect a similar thing will happen during the WC in 2018.

Mrs. P · Jul 11, 2014

As always, I believe the truth is somewhere between "There were ZERO problems" and "It was a complete catastrophe."

As for the ACTUAL topic, makes sense they would add gambling. It's a resort town where people likely let their inhibitions go. Gambling is all part of that.

Vanshilar · Jul 11, 2014

Meoima said:
Russia gambles on Sochi 2014 legacy

I thought this would be an article about ladies figure skating at the Olympics *runs and ducks*

Seriously though, yeah Sochi is a vacation destination, so I'm surprised it didn't already have casinos. President Putin was famously vacationing in Sochi at the time of the Kursk submarine disaster, something he was later criticized for. (I thought that criticism was unfair. I agree it may seem callous for a leader to be vacationing during a crisis, and everyone can say in hindsight he should've ordered this or that earlier, but realistically there wasn't much that he could have done differently given the available information at the time; it's not as if he was going to give the military some special insight as to the situation or something if he weren't vacationing.)

Amei · Jul 11, 2014

Mrs. P said:
As always, I believe the truth is somewhere between "There were ZERO problems" and "It was a complete catastrophe."

I agree, it lays somewhere in the middle; the U.S. media *especially when it deals with Russia* tend to exaggerate things.

Mrs. P said:
As for the ACTUAL topic, makes sense they would add gambling. It's a resort town where people likely let their inhibitions go. Gambling is all part of that.

Agree, it the town is a vacation destination it makes sense to add gambling, it's good revenue.

Alba · Jul 12, 2014

Mrs. P said:
As always, I believe the truth is somewhere between "There were ZERO problems" and "It was a complete catastrophe."

As usual. There were problems in Torino as well, but I suspect people didn't hear a lot about them.

dorispulaski · Jul 13, 2014

There are always problems. In 1980, in Lake Placid, the problems were transportation, and the fact that the town is really too small to hold a modern era Olympics.

The media always needs stories, especially with all that dedicated time to fill.

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