Rio Olympics face challenges

With Rio Olympics only 100 days to start with, Brazil, a country famous for doing last minute preparations is facing twin challenges in economy and politics. Reports are that Brazil has already prepared the games venues but is not sure about appearances.

Apart from economy and politics being the most delicate issues in the country to deal with, the Brazilian President’s ‘fighting impeachment’ made the people ‘angry and distracted’.

According to reports, the Rio residents are not paying added attention to the quadrennial extravaganza as ‘there are so many other things to talk about.’ In the last four years after Brazil was selected as the host country of Olympics 2016, with more than 30 million people were lead to poverty making Brazil face a meltdown in economy.

Even players, excited to represent their country in the Olympics, said: “Brazil is going through a political crisis, and the situation has still to sort itself out. I think we just need to resolve the politics, and then people's attention will turn to sport.”

Apart from politics and economy, health and crime are the officially declared issues impacting the Rio Olympics. With a massive of Zika virus that caused widespread panic and death, athletes and players are rejecting their names from the Olympics list.

Plus, drug and human trafficking, murder and other criminal activities have now become common reasons to rebuff Rio’s prospects. A government statistics showed that as many as 432 people were murdered in the city in the first quarter of this year.