Is it just me or are these #sochi tweets from journos hilarious. The pre-game tweet show involving stray dogs, double toilets is a riot
— Anne-Marie Dorning (@BostonAnnemarie) February 4, 2014
We admit it: We snickered. Especially because we aren’t in Sochi covering the Olympics. (Thanks, boss!)
How bad are the accommodations for reporters? This bad:
We'll trade you our raw sewage bathroom. RT @alanspringer: Sochi hotel room: no wifi, tv, heat, working lock on front door or shower curtain
— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) February 4, 2014
People have asked me what surprised me the most here in Sochi. It's this. Without question … it's … THIS. pic.twitter.com/1jj05FNdCP
— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) February 4, 2014
https://twitter.com/SeanFitz_Gerald/status/430732747267506176
Missing drapes, dangerous water, dog extermination, and, er, the sheets: again, welcome to Russia's problem Olympics: http://t.co/6QgO7cpqOe
— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) February 4, 2014
Journalist Bruce Arthur reports that one hotel room came with a lagniappe of sleeping construction workers. Another offered the luxury amenity of its very own stray dog.
From faulty appliances to debris to an “indeterminate amount of semen on the sheets,” journos say the facilities are a sewerscape of DNA, disturbing smells and tetanus hazards.
And then there’s the water that “looked like a lot like cloudy urine.”
My hotel has no water. If restored, the front desk says, "do not use on your face because it contains something very dangerous." #Sochi2014
— Stacy St. Clair (@StacyStClair) February 4, 2014
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Water restored, sorta. On the bright side, I now know what very dangerous face water looks like. #Sochi #unfiltered pic.twitter.com/sQWM0vYtyz
— Stacy St. Clair (@StacyStClair) February 4, 2014
Also on the bright side: I just washed my face with Evian, like I'm a Kardashian or something.
— Stacy St. Clair (@StacyStClair) February 4, 2014
President of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Organizing Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko is so very sorry for the inconvenience.
@HarryCNN media hotels are opened, undergoing final testing.Apologize for inconvenience.Pls contact press operations or accomodation service
— Dmitry Chernyshenko (@DChernyshenko) February 4, 2014
Heckuva job, Sochi!
I am picturing Sochi Olympics social media team looking at the Twitter feed right now and cracking open another bottle of Stoli.
— Tero Kuittinen (@teroterotero) February 4, 2014
And don’t forget this image that went viral last month.
Toilets for two… RT @BBCSteveR: Seeing double in the Gentlemen's Loo at the Olympic Biathlon Centre #Sochi pic.twitter.com/xRmBvmzGB3
— Matt Rhodes (@mattrhodes) January 20, 2014
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