I am pretty sick of hearing journalists complain about their accommodations. Most of the rooms that these journalists booked are in privately run "hotels" & hostels that were built specifically for the Olympics and will never be used again. No hotel owner would be incentivized to create lavish accommodations for a room that will never be used again. (actually this is where a lot of the corruption has occured, people were given money (like grants) to build these hotels in the Sochi region but didn't spend all of the money they were given)...
I don't hear many tourists complaining about their rooms, but then again, a lot of tourists are staying in the Radisson, Marriott, Rodina, Grand Hotel Polyana, etc. which all charge $250+ per night.
If you are paying $9 a night for a room (which is actually what some of these cheaper hotels are going for), you will get what you paid for (and there are similarly poor accommodations available for $9 per night in London, Vancouver, Beijing, Torino, Greece, Salt Lake, etc) . Unfortunately for these journalists, their employers didn't care enough about them to book anything nicer (or the nicer hotels were sold out of rooms). But that shouldn't matter, these 'journalists' aren't doing their jobs and are acting like the stereotypical annoying american tourists that I despise.
Here are some photos of some hotels I'd love to stay at in Sochi.
STOP COMPLAINING - DO YOUR JOBS - REPORT ON THE GAMES - AND STOP MAKING AMERICANS LOOK LIKE WHINY BITCHES
Also.. if you think the athlete rooms in the SOCHI village are bad - look up the rooms from any previous olympics:
LONDON:
BEIJING
Oh - and like others have said.. sucks that one of the rings didn't open in the opening ceremonies.. but this isn't the first time something like that has happened. Vancouver had torch issues..Beijing had to CGI fireworks that wouldn't go off...etc
