What a fiasco. The Olympic Games shoud have NEVER been awarded to this city.

[DonRedwood]

32. So....

Let me get this right... It's all the fault of the U.S.?
The collapsed bike path and the body washing up and the bus being shot at and the robberies and the polluted water and that the Paraolympians are getting treated like garbage and the neighborhoods being bulldozed and the green stinky pool, and zika mosquitos. If the press hadn't discussed those things they wouldn't have happened? Or they just shouldn't mention them because it's wrong to point out that week's before the start they were still pouring cement?

I have another theory about empty seats. The local people couldn't afford them and unlike Athens or Tokyo there were not large nearby population centers there to easily fly in to enjoy the Olympics and buy the tickets. Rio was relying on rich People willing to fly 20 hours from Europe and eat with jet lag in a tropical country with a whole different level of infrastructure. It's not like Norway where there were millions of people only a few hours away by plane. Rio is not an easy destination to get to and August temperatures and blazing sunshine might have also has something to do with it.

American media is vicious... But there is more to it than that.