But it should be clear to anyone with the common sense of a house fly that the Olympic model is no longer sustainable and has to be revised. Sochi cost more than $50 billion — and that was just for the Winter Games — so maybe Rio is getting off cheaply. This might explain why police and firefighters greeted Olympic visitors with this cheery sign last week: “Welcome to hell. The cleanup from this mess is going to take a lot longer than one day, but there are places that can handle an Olympics. Rio has 3,000 problems, none of which are addressed by a 17-day sports festival that carries a $25-whatever-billion price tag.

Source: National Post August 03, 2016 20:40 UTC