On 5 August next year,the Maracanã will host the Olympics’ opening ceremony. But not everything in Rio de Janeiro is alert …A tag that can both inspire and weigh heavy on the shoulders of athletes: just as Michael Johnson (Atlanta 1996) Cathy Freeman (Sydney 2000) and Jessica Ennis (London 2012) rose to the occasion, it proved too much for the Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris at Athens 2004 and the Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang four years later in Beijing.
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Source: theguardian.com