Maybe they should blame the thugs beating a young man in Chicago to death last week...THAT went viral and NO ONE wanted to be near that sort of crime for the Olympics or anything else.
(not that Rio is clean, but they don’t have videos out)
And I wonder if the plans to hold the Olympics in the heart of Chicago’s bad neighborhoods affected the decision.
I heard they planned to give out free transit passes to Olympic visitors in Chicago, to encourage a “green” games. But there’s no way visitors familiar with the city, staying in downtown hotels, for exmaple, would take the “L” train to the South side, then get off the train, wait for a bus in a bad neighborhood, and take a bus to the Olympic site. Did they plan to provide armed escorts for everyone taking public transportation to the Olympics??????
I know they hoped for urban renewal and all that as part of the Olympic construction, but, sad to say, the youth gangs who affect big parts of Chicago don’t give a blank.