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

[DonRedwood]

48. Don't forget poisoned ocean water full of garbage and feces

and broken contracts and promises that it would be cleaned up so that athletes from every country in the world wouldn't have to swim in the city's poop.

That's my takeaway from all this... Rio's beaches are poisoned because they can't be bothered to treat their own sewage like responsible human beings.... and then blame the media for talking about it instead of just doing the right thing for their people and stop dumping raw feces in the water.

I think on the moral scale of judging Athens for a lone nut job setting a bomb or Rio for poisoning their oceans when they know people are going to be swimming in them.... i'm going to have to judge Rio more harshly. I hadn't thought about it that way until your posts but suddenly I'm getting a really bad taste in my mouth about Brazil... almost like i got a mouthful of its nasty poisonous water.

And I felt pretty positive about the Olympics in Rio up until today.