With doping and corruption scandals ravaging tall-profile sport since London 2012,the stakes are tall for the Olympics to create the right kind of headlinesIt was not only the stomachs of the 10500 Olympic athletes who will head for Brazil in August that lurched as the calendar ticked into 2016. Games organisers, too, or will have felt an additional frisson in the knowledge that later this year a sizable gap will finally be filled by a giant leap into the unknown. Related: 2016 Olympics facing deep cuts but organisers insist 'Rio will be magic' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com