Rio Looks Apocalyptic a Year After the Olympics
by Adam Clark Estes on Gizmodo, shared by Barry Petch from on (#2Z0WB)
The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were doomed from the start. Some daft optimists thought that maybe, just maybe, if we just believed in Brazil, the politicians would pull through on their promises that the games would lift the city up to a new level of prosperity. But a year later, the opposite is true.