I’m usually cynical about the chicken-itsy-bitsy claims that a given Olympics is going to be a catastrophe. Biennially,everyone spends the run-up to the games fretting, and then the games proceed off largely hitchless. (And then the catastrophe strikes as the mountain of debt.) But Rio de Janeiro certain is doing its damndest to prove the doomsayers right.
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Source: gawker.com