Australian Olympic village burglarized, several athletes diagnosed with illness
On July 24, when Australian athletes arrived at their living quarters in Rio for the upcoming Olympics, Kitty Chiller, the delegation's leader, declared that the village was "simply not safe or ready" to be inhabited.
Fast-forward to Tuesday, and things have gone from bad to worse for the Australian athletes -- as their dormitories, per a report via VICE Sports, were robbed during an overnight fire alarm:
In the break-in overnight, long-sleeved Zika-protective team shirts and a laptop from the cycling team were stolen from the Australian buildings after the team was evacuated due to a small fire in the basement.
"When I arrived midway through evacuation, I saw three fire marshals walking out with our team shirts," Australian team Chef de Mission, Kitty Chiller, told media in Rio.
"I should take back fire marshals—I don't know who they were. They were not team members."
If this wasn't enough, four members of Australia's two-time defending Bronze medal women's water polo team have been quarantined due to a recently acquired gastro-intestinal illness.
The Australian team's Olympic village base has been robbed overnight, while four members of the women's water polo team have been struck down with a gastro-intestinal illness.
The four sick team members have been isolated from the rest of the team, and will have no contact with anyone other than doctors for 48 hours
Get excited, folks, the Olympics are off-and-running!!!
...with your laptops under one arm and your health under the other.
