RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Forget the snarling traffic and unexpected rainstorms. Foreign spectators and athletes at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro have something else to get used to: The boisterous booing and sometimes thunderous taunts of Brazilian fans who aren't satisfied to just sit back and watch the action unfold.
Feeling lost in translation? You're not alone.
"I can't hear my coach. Calm down," Brazilian fencer Ghislain Perrier, who was raised in France, said in rough Portuguese during a match as rowdy spectators chanted "Uh! You're gonna die! Uh! You're gonna die!" in the direction of his opponent.