It’s all about the Olympic 5-ring circus

14 August 2016 - 02:00
By Rebecca Davis

Rebecca Davis ponders the Rio Olympics Has there been an Olympic Games in recent history over which the shadow of doom has hung as heavily as with Rio 2016?All we've heard about is how athletes are to be accommodated in crack dens, how the tap water is brimming with dysentery, and how everyone is going to get Zika and spawn a generation of mini-athletes with very small heads.

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