No Air Conditioning for the Athlete Village at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil

The 2016 Olympics in Brazil are still nine months away, but let’s check in on how things are going!

"The 10,500 athletes at next year’s Olympics will feel first-hand the deep budget cuts buffeting the Rio de Janeiro Games: they won’t have air conditioning in their bedrooms unless someone pays for it."

August in Brazil, think it’ll be warm? According to the AP, it will be the “South American winter,” but it was still 95 degrees this past August 19th.

A spokesman for the Rio Games told the AP that they are looking to trim $520 million from the budget because Brazil is going through a deep recession.

Another item pulled from the budget: Instead of 5,000 employees being on hand, there will be 500.

Sounds like a blast.