That was later, and I agree that was probably part of the reason why the Rio cops made the issue about the athletes instead of the behavior of their own men.
I think the confrontation at the gas station started because the Americans were probably acting like jerks, and possibly not respecting the "Machismo" of the Rio cops. I could be wrong about this, and it could have been a straight up robbery because the cops wanted money, but i'm more inclined to believe it was to get "respect."
I know, hard to imagine how they might feel that way, with all the stuff they did and didn’t do leading up to and including the Olympics!
Hosting the Olympics is a suckers bet anyway. From what I have read, only the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles actually turned a profit for the Host Country.
That was the games organized by Peter Ueberroth. They generated a $200 million profit, the most in Olympic history.
The 2002 winter games in Salt Lake City, organized by Mitt Romney, also netted a $40 million surplus.
-PJ
I completely lost interest in the Olympics when they began allowing professionals to compete.
That said, I think they can be a good thing. I would say build them at one site, and use the same ones each year.
This is insanity, countries in debt with no money pouring it borrowed money into these things. It is obscene.