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08-02-2016, 06:08 AM
The Australian Olympic team is having a truly garbage time in Rio
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The Australian Olympic team seem to be having a **t-so-great time in Rio. In fact, it's going from bad to unfathomably garbage.
SEE ALSO: Rio mayor says a kangaroo might solve 'unliveable' Olympic village issues (http://mashable.com/2016/07/24/kangaroo-rio-village-olympics/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Acclimatising to a new environment so that you can out-lift, out-run and out-swim your competition is difficult at the best of times. Add to that change a serious of hazardous accidents and thefts, and it's e**ugh to have anyone hypothesising that someone up there might really have it in for the Australian Olympians.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/sport/olympics/rio-2016/rio-olympics-2016-australian-womens-water-polo-team-members-quarantined-20160801-gqiqk9.html), four members of the Australian women's water polo team have been quarantined after presenting symptoms of a gastro-intestinal sickness and were immediately isolated from their team mates. **thing quite like an entire team of elite athletes being struck down down with a virus that can manifest into a paralysing auto-immune disease. (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-exactly-is-the-zika-virus-and-why-should-you-care-2016-01-25) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/01/australia-olympic-team-rio-curse/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The Australian Olympic team seem to be having a **t-so-great time in Rio. In fact, it's going from bad to unfathomably garbage.
SEE ALSO: Rio mayor says a kangaroo might solve 'unliveable' Olympic village issues (http://mashable.com/2016/07/24/kangaroo-rio-village-olympics/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Acclimatising to a new environment so that you can out-lift, out-run and out-swim your competition is difficult at the best of times. Add to that change a serious of hazardous accidents and thefts, and it's e**ugh to have anyone hypothesising that someone up there might really have it in for the Australian Olympians.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/sport/olympics/rio-2016/rio-olympics-2016-australian-womens-water-polo-team-members-quarantined-20160801-gqiqk9.html), four members of the Australian women's water polo team have been quarantined after presenting symptoms of a gastro-intestinal sickness and were immediately isolated from their team mates. **thing quite like an entire team of elite athletes being struck down down with a virus that can manifest into a paralysing auto-immune disease. (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-exactly-is-the-zika-virus-and-why-should-you-care-2016-01-25) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/01/australia-olympic-team-rio-curse/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Rio Olympics 2016 (http://mashable.com/category/rio-olympics-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Zika Virus (http://mashable.com/category/zika-virus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Athletes (http://mashable.com/category/athletes/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Australia (http://mashable.com/category/australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Olympics 2016 (http://mashable.com/category/olympics-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/HBY13tMaJ_A