Rio Win Olympic Bid

[KeithD]

I can't wait for the shooting

[bornatbirth]

or the bag snatching and mugging

[GaryFifer]

How will the athletes know when the starter pistol goes off in the stadium, from the shooting and mugging outside?

[bornatbirth]

How will the athletes know when the starter pistol goes off in the stadium, from the shooting and mugging outside?

there will be a lot of false starts and the races will never start

[KeithD]

I dont think its any worse in Rio then in Central London !!!!!!.....

They have all out gun fights with automatic weapons on a weekly basis

"As of 2007, the homicide rate of the greater metropolitan area stood at nearly 30 victims per week, with the majority of victims falling to mugging, stray bullets or narcoterrorism. In 2006, 2,273 people were murdered in the city giving it a murder rate of 37.7 cases for every 100,000 people"