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Journos in Sochi live-tweet hilarious and freaky ‘amenities’ [pics]

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http://twitter.com/#!/BostonAnnemarie/status/430769335615762432

We admit it: We snickered. Especially because we aren’t in Sochi covering the Olympics. (Thanks, boss!)

How bad are the accommodations for reporters? This bad:

http://twitter.com/#!/wyshynski/status/430734034113536000
http://twitter.com/#!/bruce_arthur/status/430775300734349312

Journalist Bruce Arthur reports that one hotel room came with a lagniappe of sleeping construction workers. Another offered the luxury amenity of its very own stray dog.

From faulty appliances to debris to an “indeterminate amount of semen on the sheets,” journos say the facilities are a sewerscape of DNA, disturbing smells and tetanus hazards.

And then there’s the water that “looked like a lot like cloudy urine.”

http://twitter.com/#!/StacyStClair/status/430550673977913344
http://twitter.com/#!/StacyStClair/status/430551349189545985

President of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Organizing Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko is so very sorry for the inconvenience.

http://twitter.com/#!/DChernyshenko/status/430654592981168128

Heckuva job, Sochi!

http://twitter.com/#!/teroterotero/status/430779367875420160

Deadspin has much more.

And don’t forget this image that went viral last month.

http://twitter.com/#!/mattrhodes/status/425297670031155200

Related:

Canada.com | Sochi facilities still a work in progress

Deadspin | Staying In Sochi Is A Hilarious Adventure

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