There’s flesh-eating bacteria in the water and alligators hanging out on the golf course. A fatal horse disease that’s been used as a biological weapon was discovered near the Equestrian Centre. Public security has been described as a ‘total improvisation’. And there’s no guarantee there’ll be any power. So is this the Olympics or is…
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The stinky business of the Rio Olympics
Remember that Seinfeld episode where Kramer swims in the East River and an onlooker mistakes him for a dead body on the grounds that no one would be stupid enough to swim in such fetid waters? That’s next year’s Olympics. Not to put too fine a point on it but nearly 1,400 sailors, rowers, kayakers,…