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Mike

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Australian Olympic rowing coaches robbed at knifepoint in Rio and 'violently assaulted by two teenage boys'
Two Australian coaches had credit cards and mobile phones taken in Rio
One was reportedly grabbed around the throat and assaulted
Latest of string of security breaches involving Australian victims
By MAX MARGAN and AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 00:22 EST, 7 August 2016 | UPDATED: 06:15 EST, 7 August 2016

Two Australian rowing coaches were robbed at knifepoint by two teenage boys in Rio in the latest security failure at the Games.
The coaches were wearing their team uniforms and were walking a short distance back to their hotel near Ipanema Beach after the opening ceremony on Friday, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
The coaches were reportedly violently assaulted during the incident after being approached by two teenage boys, including one who pulled out a knife and demanded money.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3727675/Rio-Olympics-Australian-rowing-coaches-robbed-knifepoint-two-teenage-boys.html#ixzz4GewTLhDi
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Traveler

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Mike said:
Australian Olympic rowing coaches robbed at knifepoint in Rio and 'violently assaulted by two teenage boys'
Two Australian coaches had credit cards and mobile phones taken in Rio
One was reportedly grabbed around the throat and assaulted
Latest of string of security breaches involving Australian victims
By MAX MARGAN and AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 00:22 EST, 7 August 2016 | UPDATED: 06:15 EST, 7 August 2016

Two Australian rowing coaches were robbed at knifepoint by two teenage boys in Rio in the latest security failure at the Games.
The coaches were wearing their team uniforms and were walking a short distance back to their hotel near Ipanema Beach after the opening ceremony on Friday, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
The coaches were reportedly violently assaulted during the incident after being approached by two teenage boys, including one who pulled out a knife and demanded money.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3727675/Rio-Olympics-Australian-rowing-coaches-robbed-knifepoint-two-teenage-boys.html#ixzz4GewTLhDi
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
I think I'd rather be robbed and beaten than have to swim in raw sewage where they've found a dead body, and body parts washing up on shore.
Some will probably endure both.
 

Mike

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“Elsewhere in Rio, a Russian official, and reportedly a master of jiu-jitsu, snatched away a robber’s gun and shot him dead in the street, according to police. Russia’s embassy in Rio has denied the reports.”

Rio de Janeiro has a long history of violent crime, and athletes in town have already suffered from a variety of attacks, most commonly muggings. Rio is also the rape capital of Brazil, with a rape recorded every two hours.

Breitbart News reported that Brazil’s Secretary of Public Security Jose Mariano has said there is no solution to the high crime to which the athletes and spectators will be subjected as the world converges on Rio this week: “Historically, unfortunately, that is how Rio de Janeiro is.”
 

TexasBred

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Nothing like staying in the nicest hotel in Rio and watching a 6 foot wide stream of human shyt and other refuse coming down the hill from that hillside slum, cut throught the snow white beach and enter the water. How it was 20 years ago and I doubt it has changed because the slums are still there. The coffee however, is the best in the world.
 

Mike

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U.S. Olympic swimming star Ryan Lochte said he and three other U.S. swimmers were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning in Rio de Janeiro by armed men posing as police.

Lochte, 32, told NBC the quartet of swimmers were in a taxi coming home from a party at Club France when the cab pulled over and was accosted by a group of men who flashed a police badge and guns.

"They pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground — they got down on the ground," Lochte said. "I refused, I was like, 'We didn't do anything wrong, so — I'm not getting down on the ground.'

"And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, 'Get down,' and I put my hands up, I was like 'Whatever.' He took our money, he took my wallet — he left my cell phone, he left my credentials."

A U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman identified the other swimmers -- Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen -- and said all four were "safe and cooperating with authorities."

A spokesman for Club France, Hugo Sppezapria, told The Washington Post that Lochte and a friend left Club France around 3 a.m. and visited another "community."

"Why the hell would they do that?" Sppezapria said.

Brazilian police issued a statement that said no crime had been reported.

"The Civil Police were not notified about the robbery which an American swimmer suffered after leaving a party," the statement said. "The institution is investigating the incident, on the base of information circulated by the press.

"The American Consulate was contacted and said it had not been notified either. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that the US Committee denied the crime. The investigation is in progress."



Lochte’s mom initially broke the news to Fox Sports Australia and USA Today on Sunday morning.

“I think they’re all shaken up,” Ileana Lochte told USA Today. “There were a few of them. No, they were just, they just took their wallets and basically that was it.”

That account was later confirmed by the spokesman of a friend of Lochte’s, The Washington Post reported.

International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said the U.S. Olympic Committee initially denied the story, but it looked like that denial “is not correct.” Earlier, Adams had said the reports were “absolutely not true.” He had said his information came from the swimmer and the USOC.

Rio organizers spokesman Mario Andrada said he has been briefed on an “issue” involving the swimmer, but could not say if Lochte was held at gunpoint.

Lochte, who has 12 career Olympic medals and five gold medals, swam in two events at the Rio Games, winning gold in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay.
 

Faster horses

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Friend of ours was invited to Brazil to put on a horse clinic. Of course, it was at a prestigious and beautiful place. On the way back to the airport, he asked the cab driver to take him downtown Rio just to look around. The cab driver refused, saying it was too dangerous. Looks like the cabby knew what he was talking about.
 
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