Has anyone told @Seek about people “Runing this country”, @rojo??
She might want to be the spokesperson.
But, to the question.
At the time the Olympics was awarded, Brazil was swimming in oil money, instead of shit. The Olympic Committee was thrilled to award the games to a non-totalitarian government willing to throw barrels of money at an enterprise that all prestige, no profit. Brazil was tickled to pretend they’re First World. There was money for the vast, VAST improvements required, and hosting the Olympic’s put things like, oh, say, not dumping Rio’s raw sewage into the ocean, on the fast track.
The the price of oil tanked.
Now Micheal Phelps will have to be fortified with as much antibiotics as a factory farmed hog in order to fend off the turds pollution in Rio’s water.