I've found Germany to be a pretty clean country, much cleaner than a lot of cities I've visited in the U.S., but that was before the public swarmed into the Games Convention. Talk about trashy. An hour into the show and the floor is flooded with all sorts of German leavings. The walk from the convention center to the train is even worse, with paper, bits of swag, broken up discs, cups and even one very mutilated bicycle spotting the once-clean walkways.

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