The torch is burning — a beacon of Brazil's beckoning. An invitation to another summer spectacle — two years removed from the World Cup — designed to mask the squalid and the sick from view.
An invitation best left sealed in an envelope stamped with the wax of corruption melted down. An invitation, this time, that must be rescinded, rescheduled or both.
For once in its masquerade of an existence, the International Olympic Committee must live up to the words of, essentially, its constitution.
1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind.