It is beginning to look like the time has come to call off the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The reason is simple: young women cannot travel there safely. While polluted water and security issues have already made things tough for anyone who would be a visitor there, now Brazil is on the front line of the mosquito-borne Zika virus epidemic. To host the Games at a site teeming with Zika, an outbreak the World Health Organization has labelled a “public health emergency of international concern,” is, quite simply, irresponsible.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/leeigel/2016/02/03/zika-outbreak-means-it-is-now-time-to-cancel-rio-olympics/#635032c94f92
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Keith Conning:  I have attended five Olympic Games: 1972 Munich, 1976 Montreal, 1984 Los Angeles, 1996 Atlanta, and 2004 Athens.
I agree that the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro should be called off.