That Ultra Guy wrote:
I mean they ended up in an impoverished black area, they probably thought it was just like home.
They "ended up" in a favela?
Like De Andre Jordan, Demar DeRozan and Jimmy Butler "ended up" in a well known brothel called Termas de Montecarlo? Like Ryan Lochte and other US swimmers "ended up" drunk in Club France, and after than, in a gas station in Barra da Tijuca where they urinated in a wall and vandalized a bathroom?
In Rio, you go where you want.
Look, I was in Rio twice. Nobody seriously working in lodging ("imoveis", "aluguel"), offers accomodations in a favela when you're near Copacabana or Ipanema. There's only a couple of cheap "pousadas" offering lodging in favelas as part of tours described as "come and see for a night the favelas' life".
But nobody in their right mind would accept accommodate an Olympic Team in that kind of places. And it is rare even get to the point where someone offers you stay there.
Even more. After Olympics, there is an excess on acommodation in Rio de Janeiro. You have thousands of hotels, bed and breakfasts, "pousadas", etc. And the price is not the same. You have expensive 5-star hotels, but also cheap decent pousadas or B&B's (double bedrooms with breakfast included starting from 40 dollars-130 reais).
So, if Kenyans "ended up" in $10 hostels, triple bedrooms without private bathroom, I wouldn't be surprised if this is part of a plan to destabilize the AK leadership.