Olympics 2016: the road to Rio

(Vatican Radio) With less than one hundred days to go, until the start of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro,  Brazil's political crisis seems to suggest the current government may not even make the opening ceremony.

Listen to the report by James Blears: 

Officials pledge that the stadiums will be ready to host the first Olympics to be held in South America.  

But Rio's bay which remains heavily contaminated  with sewage won't and can't be cleansed for the rowers and wind surfers.

The country's President Dilma Rousseff on the other hand is in her own battle against time, which could culminate in an  impeachment process, if Brazil's Senate votes in May to put her on trial for alleged Budget maniputiona via vast bank loans. 

Carlos Nuzman, who's the President of Rio's Olympic Committe confidently states: "Rio is ready to make history."  While new Sports Minister Ricardo Leyser insists the political crisis won't affect the Olympics. 

Meanwhile, law and order is keeping a wary close eye on the poor favelas districts,  and many of the poor themselves are starkly questioning just why so much in the ways and means of badly needed rescources, have  been spent on the olympics.

They  themselves can't afford tickets to be spectators,  or even food to regularly sustain themselves in the great race of life.