The Knowns of the Rio Olympics

At RealClearLife Sean Cunningham ponders the known factors present at the Rio Olympics which could lead to a disaster:

At some point, most Olympics feel like a catastrophe in the making. (Who can forget the reports in 2014 of Sochi having to round up and poison stray dogs ahead of the Winter Olympics?)
Yet ultimately the Olympics happen, tend to go pretty smoothly, and leave the host nation with a lot of utterly useless buildings.
Brazil may be the rare Olympics that feels like it’s going to fail and actually does.

He lists twelve reasons:

  • The World Cup Hangover
  • Many Brazilians Want Nothing to Do With the Olympics
  • There’s a President Problem
  • The Criminals in Congress
  • The Water
  • The Super Bacteria
  • The Russians Are Remarkably Doped Up
  • The Zika
  • The “Return” of Olympic Golf
  • Much of the Olympic Village is “Unlivable.”
  • The Crime
  • Their Murdering Their Own Mascot

and those are just the known factors.

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