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Monday, 04/11/2016 4:33:03 PM

Monday, April 11, 2016 4:33:03 PM

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Brazil's Latest Headache: Ticket Sales Lag For Rio Olympics
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/04/11/473828835/amid-brazils-recession-ticket-sales-lag-for-rio-olympics

From the article:

Leyser [Ricardo Leyser, the Sports Minister] argued — improbably — that the slow domestic sales may partially be due to the fact that Brazilians were unaware that they could attend.

"Brazilians themselves haven't been alerted to the fact that they can go to Olympic events," says Leyser. [ROTFLMAO!]

My son used to live in Rio, I've been there before, and I'm going to the freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling events in mid-August. Given the usual levels of Brazilian corruption and inefficiency, I'm expecting a cluster*&%$ of epic (dare I say Olympian?) proportions.

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