The Rio Olympics are “troubled” — but aren’t they always?

In the months preceding the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the news media has been getting into shape for the event by exercising a familiar set of adjectives: “Troubled.” “Beleaguered.” “Disastrous.”
The Rio Games face numerous problems, according to news accounts, and here are just a few: The city’s collapsing economy. Brazil’s political instability. Corruption. Crime. Incomplete and substandard facilities. Zika.
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Rather than hailing the