Rio Mayor Jabs At Aussies Who Won't Move In To Olympic Village

This oughta get Australia’s Olympic team hopping mad.

After the Australian Olympic Committee deemed the squad’s Olympic Village digs in Rio uninhabitable due to electrical shorts, leaking pipes and clogged toilets, Rio mayor Eduardo Paes hit back with lame humor.

“I almost feel like putting a kangaroo in front of their building to make them feel at home,” he said on Sunday, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

The accommodations were supposed to be ready July 21, Reuters reported. As of Sunday, July 24, the Australians who had arrived still refused to move in, instead staying at a hotel.

“We decided to do a ‘stress test’ where taps and toilets were simultaneously turned on in apartments on several floors to see if the system could cope once the athletes are in-house,” the Australian team’s Chef de Mission Kitty Chiller told the Sydney Morning Herald. “The system failed.”

In a brief press conference, Chiller stated that Australian players hoped to move in by Wednesday.

According to Chiller, the stress test found that “water came down walls, there was a strong smell of gas in some apartments, and there was ‘shorting’ in the electrical wiring.”

Local media also quoted Mayor Paes as saying the Olympic Village in Rio was nicer than the one in Sydney in 2000.