Re: Road to Rio
Reply #4 –
Not the sort of news we want to hear, but just because we don't want to hear it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
I am finding it very difficult to get motivated for these Olympics, something that is not normally the case. The Road to this Olympic Games is paved with Zika Virus (frightening enough at the best of times), Monumental Corruption (the government of Brazil is lucky to have survived), Drug Cheating (the whole Russian Athletics team, for example, is banned for drug use. Others should be!), Crime (it is just luck that athletes haven't been killed yet), Pollution (some of the Games' venues are unclean by any standards, and not just the water areas), incomplete venues (a perennial: Sydney and London have been the only ones really ready for decades) and real lack of interest (the Brazilian population haven't shown the interest and the rest of the world is afraid of the crime or the Zika virus).
It is just not what it could have been.
Agree with you Crash. The Olympics is a snorefest for me nowadays - I have absolutely no interest at all. Used to be an avid follower of it. In fact footy is just about it for me as far as sport goes now.