Hey World, Let's Cut Brazil Just a Little Slack
Hey World, Let's Cut Brazil Just a Little Slack
By
Brian Winter
The same trait that got Brazil into this Olympic-sized mess will also (eventually) lead them out, writes AQ’s editor-in-chief.
After being kidnapped by uniformed police in Rio on the eve of the Olympic Games, a young New Zealander proclaimed on Facebook that Brazil “is well and truly f***ed in every sense of the word imaginable.” Many others agreed, from the Australian athletes who arrived in their dorms to find overflowing toilets (and a fire, and then...
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