Remember the chaos before the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010? Even as athletes were arriving in the CWG Village on the banks of Yamuna, painters and electricians were still working in the apartments and the foreign press, especially the British and Australian, had a gala time trashing all that India had prepared for the games. Something similar has been happening in the Olympic Village by the Atlantic in Rio de Janeiro. Amid reports that almost half the apartments in the village were not ready, the Australian team checked into one of the swanky-looking towers. They exited soon after and moved into a hotel. Reason: leaking taps and flooded rooms. To pacify the Aussies, the Rio mayor got installed a statue of kangaroo in front of the building. But the Aussies were not impressed at all. “We need plumbers, and not kangaroos,” said the head of the Aussie delegation before leaving the village in a huff. The next day, the American teams too moved into hotels, leaving the mayor and other official exasperated. Last heard, the Rio officials were working hard to bring back the athletes back into the village. Just like Delhi, in 2010, painters and electricians are still on the job in the Olympic Village, with less than three days before the opening of Rio 2016. But in the middle of such hiccups, the Brazilian teams moved into their apartments on Monday without making a fuss.