6 Bizarre Things That Made News In This Olympics
1. The athlete who spent almost 16 thousand reais on Pokémon GO
If you feel even a tightness in the chest when spending $ 3.19 to buy 20 pokéballs, imagine the heart attack when opening the mobile account and see an unfriendly value of 16 thousand reais? This is more or less what happened to the Japanese gymnastics athlete Kohei Uchimura - the difference was just the coin: 500, 000 yen, because of the roaming data.
Luckily, Kohei got in touch with the operator and replaced the absurd bill with a daily deductible of 3, 000 yen, or 97 reais.
2. The fencer who dropped the phone during the competition
It is quite common nowadays that we always have our cell phones, whether in our pants pocket or in a purse. But French fencer Enzo Lefort took this very seriously. In the middle of a dispute with the German Peter Joppich, Enzo's smartphone fell to the ground, which forced the referee to stop the match. It got ugly, huh?
3. Basketball players who have stopped in a brothel “by mistake”
Despite being hosted on an ocean liner, the men's basketball team in the United States decided to go through a spa. According to the US website TMZ Sports, they got confused and were surprised to find that the place was actually a brothel.
4. The organizers who lost the keys to a stadium
If you are one of those who just don't lose their heads because they are stuck together, you can even understand the situation of these guys: before a match between Sweden and South Africa, the event's organization lost the keys to the east gate of Engenhão Stadium, causing a 1 hour delay.
5. The 450 thousand condoms distributed to athletes
If the London Olympics had already broken a record by delivering 150, 000 contraceptives, Rio's tripled this number: there were 450, 000 condoms, an average of 42 per athlete!
6. The gymnast who fell into the party and was expelled by the delegation itself
Dutch gymnast Yuri Van Gelder decided to celebrate the qualifying for the hoop final and fell ill. Yuri fell into the spree, drank too much and, on his return, was removed from the team, having to return to the Netherlands.
