I think the media is planting these scare stories to punish Russia for their stand against gays.
If Obama had his way, he would have boycotted the Games. So the next best thing is to plant so much fear, that nobody wants to go.
I had friends who were supposed to be in the 1980 Summer Olympics until idiot Carter decided to boycott them.
It defines their life. I always hear them introduced as ‘The XXXX Brothers, they were in the 1980 Olympics but they couldn’t go’.