yes it's all politics.

Brazil has a huge 'sports mafia' going on and it provides a once in a lifetime chance for COI to cash in with the help of a friendly government.

They keep spending billions and billions and billions investing in top performance sports, with lame results, while doing nothing about the development of sports as a whole, not to mention that the country has got thousands of much more important needs than hosting a 2 week party and wasting billions of dollars in building stadiums and arenas that will become useless.

just read about the 2007 Rio Pan American Games. the spendings still haven't been (and pretty much will never be) approved by the Union's Fund. most of the giant enterprises built for the games are rotting to rust, not to mention a millionaire soccer stadium that was built with public money and given to a Rio team.

if COI was worried about something other than money how would it even accept such a host even to qualify? if the very last international event was a wasting party?


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