Journalists at Sochi are live-tweeting their hilarious and gross hotel experiences
Amid continued debate over whether or not Sochi is prepared to host the 2014 Olympics (here are 15 alarming signs that Russia might not be ready) reporters from around the world are starting to check into local hotels — to their apparent grief. Some journalists arriving in Sochi are describing appalling conditions in the housing there, where only six of nine media hotels are ready for guests. Hotels are still under construction. Water, if it’s running, isn’t drinkable. One German photographer told the AP over the weekend that his hotel still had stray dogs and construction workers wandering in and out of rooms.
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Stacy St. Clair @StacyStClair
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My hotel has no water. If restored, the front desk says, "do not use on your face because it contains something very dangerous." #Sochi2014
10:02 PM - 3 Feb 2014
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Greg Wyshynski ✔ @wyshynski
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People have asked me what surprised me the most here in Sochi. It's this. Without question ... it's ... THIS.
11:06 AM - 4 Feb 2014
Now thats funny given the context. 
Maybe if there weren't roving bands of Homophobes scouring the city streets to beat the shit out of LGBT people maybe they would get a little sympathy here. And before you ask the one's not doing it are just as guilty for letting it happen. When I see a uprising of Russian citizens combating this atrocity then and only then will we have a meaningfully conversation.