Twin toilets photo at Sochi Olympics goes viral (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj74WZypsU2Sa8qRIryCgJCXPI6M9ylRd1JecX8BkUJoV5C04UAI58nGGEwIGy6WHu_GjLwHRHufsF9I9ooags3yeeGiPVayDUBeyAx5xnbm-g-Cj5oI9rmOVivl_qrLT6r8QshFHMV9Ko/s1600/354590e41ca1a803490f6a7067007a3c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj74WZypsU2Sa8qRIryCgJCXPI6M9ylRd1JecX8BkUJoV5C04UAI58nGGEwIGy6WHu_GjLwHRHufsF9I9ooags3yeeGiPVayDUBeyAx5xnbm-g-Cj5oI9rmOVivl_qrLT6r8QshFHMV9Ko/s1600/354590e41ca1a803490f6a7067007a3c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_14609" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">SOCHI, Russia (AP) — At least one Olympic bathroom seems to be flush with toilets.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_14515" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">His tweeted picture instantly became a national joke.When BBC reporter Steve Rosenberg went to use the bathroom at the cross-country skiing and biathlon center for next month's Winter Olympics in Sochi, he found two toilets but only one stall.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_14625" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Although toilets like that are not common in Russia, social media users posted photos of other side-by-side toilets, including ones in a courthouse and a cafe.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_14635" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The editor of the state R-Sport news agency said such communal toilets are standard at Russian soccer stadiums.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Why are the BBC folks scaring us?" Vasily Konov wrote in this personal Twitter account. "This is what the gents look like at football stadiums in Russia."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">He posted a photo showing two urinals and three toilets in a large room.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Russians jested that the toilets in Sochi were designed for a "tandem," the name used to describe the duo of President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. One popular blogger altered Rosenberg's photo to put in a framed portrait of the two leaders above the toilets.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_14683" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In a nod to the tight security measures imposed in Sochi for the Winter Olympics, another joke has it that the second toilet was for a Russian security officer.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_14673" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Sochi organizing committee refused to comment on the picture. The games run from Feb. 7-23.</div></div>

Twin toilets photo at Sochi Olympics goes viral (BLOG)

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — At least one Olympic bathroom seems to be flush with toilets. His tweeted picture instantly became a national joke.When...

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