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Sochi, the site of the 2014 winter Olympics, isn't exactly up to the standards of the visitors who have come to watch the games. To add to the political controversy circling Russia over their treatment of LGBT citizens with the recent anti-gay propaganda law, the town appears to be not quite ready. To give the people who worked to develop Sochi credit, they transformed a virtually unimportant plot of land into an Olympic-ready game town very quickly, but it doesn't exactly match up to the 2008 Beijing summer Olympics with their huge glass dome. TIME Magazine calls it one of the worst Olympics destinations ever. After people get by the hotels that are either in shambles or unprepared for their arrival, they have to worry about terrorism or nonfunctioning equipment in rooms. The visas are expensive, and people are simply not having a good time. The pictures shown in this slideshow help to show viewers exactly what the people are seeing, along with the ethos of the prestigious Olympic games, and adds an irony that is hard to ignore when thinking of the games overall.
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