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[SunSeeker]

23. I don't judge Olympics by the opening show, but by how the games were run.

These Olympic games were not run well. Green diving and synchronized swimming pools. Uninhabitable Olympic Village athlete's rooms. Long lines for everything, even a 30-minute wait for a bottle of water in ridiculously hot stadiums. Empty seats at events, with fans unable to get in due to inadequate security causing hours-long lines to get in and missing events altogether. Dangerous courses, resulting in horrific cyclist crashes. The list goes on and on. And now this.

Do you think it is fine that these swimmers were pulled off their plane and are being detained in Brazil for no reason other that a fellow teammate had the nerve to report a crime? Not only does this chill the reporting of crime by athletes in Brazil, but it is an impetuous abuse of power by this judge -- aided and abetted by Brazil security forces.

No one forced Brazil to host these games. If they did not have the wherewithal to do it, they should not have bid for the games. They sure as hell shouldn't be taking out their frustrations on the athletes.