Sochi: A Picture of Twin Toilets at the Olympics Games Village in the resort town of Sochi in Russia has gone Viral on Social Media with People making random jokes on it. Though this type of toilets is common in Russia, for outsiders it would difficult to use.
Controversial Twin Toilets Sochi Olympic Village Russia
The Toilets were first spotted by BBC Reporter. He  tweeted a picture of it which instantly became a national joke.
However, Russian newspapers have taken a serious note of this and said that such communal toilets are standard at Russian soccer stadiums.
“Why are the BBC folks scaring us?” Vasily Konov, editor of the state R-Sport news agency,  wrote in this personal Twitter account. “This is what the gents look like at football stadiums in Russia.”
He posted a photo showing two urinals and three toilets in a large room.
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.
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.
The Sochi organizing committee refused to comment on the picture. The games run from Feb. 7-23.