Team GB swimming kit goes missing ahead of Olympics
Nine bags went missing from Team GB rooms inside the Olympic Village,
with other athletes criticising the conditions that greeted them in Rio
with water leaks and unfinished rooms
Nine Team GB kit bags have gone missing from the Olympic
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Members of Team GB's swimming team have seen their kit go missing
from inside the Olympic Village on the day of the opening ceremony as
problems continue to blight the build-up to the Rio Games.
Nine kit bags are reported to have gone missing from Team GB rooms,
with competition swimwear required for Saturday's competition inside the
bags.
It leaves a number of swimmers without the correct swimwear for
Saturday's action, which will see a number of Team GB athletes compete
on day one in the pool.
The fear is that the kit has been stolen from athletes' rooms
although it is not known if the items were lost in the transition from
the holding camp in Belo Horizonte. Further reports claim that some team
members have banned cleaners from entering their rooms.
A British Olympic Association statement read: "A small number of bags
- nine from a total of nearly 3,000 pieces of luggage - are currently
unaccounted for following their transfer from Belo Horizonte to the
Olympic Village in Rio.
"We are working hard to locate the bags as soon as possible. In the
meantime all athletes continue to train as normal and are unaffected
when it comes to training and competition wear.
"The focus of athletes involved is very much on the start of the
Games and their own performances."
Athletes in the Olympic Village have also posted further video
footage of incomplete rooms and water leaks, raising more questions over
the suitability of hosting the event in Rio de Janeiro.
Health concerns - including the outbreak of the Zika virus - and poor
construction work have meant that the Olympics begins somewhat under a
cloud, although Friday's opening ceremony can at least go a long way to
lifting the gloom once the action begins.
However, members of the Jamaican team posted a video to the scene
that greeted them upon their arrival in the athletes' village, where the
bathroom in one apartment was half finished and still had decorating
tools lying about.
The protective cover on the flooring had already come unstuck while
much of the kitchen remained incomplete with tools littering the
apartment and workers still finishing construction of the apartments.
Furthermore, Czech Republic cyclist Zdenek Stybar posted a video on
Instagram (above) to reveal a flow of water rushing through his
accommodation after one of many water leaks in the Olympic Village.
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