No, Brazil has not been the best Olympics host. French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie won the silver medal on Monday night, losing out to Brazil’s Thiago da Silva, who won gold. Lavillenie said that the difference was that the crowd was heckling him so severely that he lost his concentration.
You just about had us feeling sorry for you, Renaud. But then you had to go and unleash this quote. Reuters:
“In 1936 the crowd was against Jesse Owens. We’ve not see this since. We have to deal with it.”
“For the Olympics it is not a good image.