This wasn’t Beijing or Athens, even, or going back to Sydney in 2000, where I never wanted to leave. Once the games take over the Games, so much of the rest, even the green pool, seems to fade away. The coach of the American women’s water polo team, Adam Krikorian, left Rio just before the Olympics when his brother suddenly passed away. One Canadian doctor called it the worst set up he’s seen at an Olympic Games. But every day seemed like the day in which the Games could go off the tracks.

Source: National Post August 20, 2016 22:59 UTC