River home to 500 crocodiles chosen as Olympic rowing venue
a month ago by Jordan117 to c/nottheonion
Ehm, Olympic and Paralympic rowing… is the plan that the race will start as Olympic and finish as Paralympic?
(Sorry)
Your hilarious comment caused me to almost splurt my morning coffee. Thanks for the laugh. Moreover, the carnivorous fish species with razor-sharp teeth whose name is in your alias makes your point even more appropriate. LOL
Not just crocs, fucking Australian salt water crocs.
This might be worth watching.
The comedy of this story aside, as a resident of inner-city Brisbane, I am so dreading the fucking Olympics coming here. They haven't even started building the stadium at Victoria Park yet, never mind the fact that it's a stupid site for it in the first place.
I'm so, so glad my home town of Hamburg, Germany, rejected the idea of applying for the Olympic circus in a public vote.
Don't need the billionaires shit show to clog up and uglify my city. We already achieve that by ourselves.
Well at least the rowing won't be anywhere near you.
Given the choice, none of the events would be anywhere near me, but my commute takes me along the Inner City Bypass, which is directly under where they're allegedly going to build the Victoria Park stadium. Ugh, roadworks. I'll be taking my bike along the riverside bike paths instead, if my aging body can still handle it by then.
Yeah, it seems like Brisbane is turning this into an infrastructure Olympics without a clear plan on what it should look like.
It's really stupid that the Olympics don't just rotate between the cities that have held them before. The Olympics were in Sydney in 2000, a lot of the infrastructure to support it should be still there, so just do it there again.
Or just hold them in Athens where it originated, or better yet, abolish them altogether.
From The Doubter's Companion: The Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense:
OLYMPIC IDEAL The Greek games began in 776 BC as a competition among amateur athletes from the different city - states. The purpose was to bring the citizens of the rival cities together in an apolitical gathering, which would reduce squabbling and develop a larger sense of community.
The rising merchant class in those cities subsequently inverted their purpose by introducing the idea of city rivalry into the games. The city - states then began subsidizing their athletes indirectly and often invisibly. The amateur athletes were soon living a parody of amateurism. They had careers and future income riding on the competition. Winners became heroes, that is to say political heroes. They were fed at the cost of the state for the rest of their lives.
Subtle corruption gradually turned into rank dishonesty. Athletes were eventually bribed to lose. In AD 394 the games were abolished because they had become a parody of the amateur idea, a focus of corruption and a source of political rivalry.
The Olympic Games were re - established in 1896 as a competition among amateur athletes. One of the purposes was to bring citizens of rival countries together in an apolitical gathering. What the Greeks managed to do in 1,170 years, we have done in less than 100.
You guys laugh, but this is the safest river in all of Australia.
The runners up had piranhas, crocodile dundee and irukandji jellyfish.
Ok but Crocodile Dundee was a person.
He's in there, waiting. With a knife.
And piranhas are native to the Americas
So are rabbits... and yet, this video was taken not 4 days ago in the mountains of Australia:
Comedy gold
LOOKS LIKE LEAN BEEFCAKE IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
Just row around them, sounds like a skill issue /j
it's not doping if natural adrenaline
That's sure to cause a....row! ^I'll see myself out^
A river that is home to about 500 saltwater crocodiles has been given the OK to host Olympic and Paralympic rowing and canoeing events at the 2032 Brisbane Games.
Oh well that's OK then. If they're saltwater crocodiles, there shouldn't be any swans in the water.
Damn. They'll do ANYTHING during sweeps week!
Fucking bullshit,
There's no crocs in Brisbane.
Come do it in the Sputh Alligator or the Adelaide River that will get everyone rowing hard
Edit: Upon reading the article it's Rockhampton so it's plausible.
The bigger issue appears to be the distance from Brisbane city itself.
Still crocs down there are so rare you're more likely to be done in by a shark.
Let's have articles saying world surfing championship to be hosted in shark infested ocean
I think they don't want to pull the crowds away from the main events so they find something to push back against it
There are no crocodiles in that Brisbane river? Then I wonder why the article stated there are 500 crocodiles living in that Brisbane river?
That river isn't in Brisbane.
But beyond that unless you're in Northern qld there are next to no crocs
Are they doing the triathlon there too?
How often do rowing teams actually end up in the water? It's pretty rare, I think.
I wonder if aquatic creatures get upset & violently retaliatory when they're swatted by paddling oars?
no, if the croc gets to you first.
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More motivation to row and you people are complaining?
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