A tragedy is to come in Rio de Janeiro, says columnist WashPost

São Paulo - One of the main columnists US newspaper Washington Post sports has heavily criticized the organization of the Rio 2016 text at the weekend. Sally Jenkins says the event hopefully will escape a disaster of "large-scale" and the guilt of the event is the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which did nothing to prevent the Games in Brazil.

"Half a million people will go to Rio for the Games, with a security force of only 85,000 to keep them safe from terrorists and bandits," says Sally. "Many of them are resentful because they are poorly paid, with no fuel cars and parked helicopters, (...), and already trying to cope with one of the cities full of crime on Earth."

The columnist analysis extends to failures that have left state hospitals without basic supplies and temporary closure of medical facilities last year. Says still "expect superheroes" come down to earth in the event of serious problems during the games.

The Washington Post journalist refutes the thesis published by the IOC that the city is ready for the event. For her, the committee neglects obvious problems presented in the 44 test events held in Rio, as cases of allergy and vomiting presented by competitors who have contact with the polluted waters of the Bay of Guanabara, which she calls "toilet Rio" .

They would still be ignored scientists who found a super-resistant bacteria found in the city - which can cause meningitis and lung infections, for example - and the possibility of mass infection by zika virus.

"The IOC dismissed the concerns of a global epidemic, apparently because the landscape of the river is divine," he says. "For them, it is worth inserting half a million foreign visitors and tourists in a petri dish of urban virus."

The criticism follows: Sally says that the organization is "so good" that in June, the VLT line lost power just a week after it opened. "So we organized a subway line of $ 3 billion is not finished and will not be fully tested before receiving the Olympic passengers."

All these aspects, Sally Jenkins, already constitute a catastrophe in "slow motion", over the years, since the cost of the Olympics is the city budget is broken out by 51%. She says there is only one reason why the IOC did not "do the reasonable thing and postpone or move the Rio Games: money."

Sally says that the committee has no willingness to change the event because it would cause huge financial losses to both the organization and the sponsors. For her, the risk would not compensate the losses.

Finally, the columnist cites corruption as another scourge of the organization of the games. Sally cites a study from Oxford University who points out that the Olympic Games during the last decade, have a surplus cost planning that exceeds 156% of the expected. "Not another megaproject in the world to record such irresponsible increases cost: there is no bridge, tunnel or dam," he says.

To be fair, it reminds corruption scheme reported in the Winter Olympics in Sochi, where, say reports from the Institute of Modern Russia, about one third of the event realization costs were directly to diversion schemes. But it also says that two Rio rulers are accused of receiving kickbacks for works in the subway made for games.

"The IOC has romanticism to cover the fiscal madness and scandal," says Sally Jenkins. "For two weeks, the gold medals and beautiful images in the NBC screen will give us temporary amnesia. Only then will arrive in Rio the actual cost [of the Olympics] and this will be the hardest and longest among the most places, given the deficit of $ 6 billion of the city. "