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Over the past month in Brazil, a financial meltdown threatened its ability to put on the Olympics, a Paralympian was robbed at gunpoint, accusations of widespread corruption plagued the national government, the sitting president clawed for her political life amid impeachment proceedings, the specter of superbugs and polluted water loomed and, to top it off, a cop killed a rogue jaguar on the Olympic torch route. It takes some kind of unmitigated disaster to make 150 experts recommending the cancellation of the Summer Games because of Zika virus look like the least of your problems. "I haven't been there to experience things going on in Rio," Yan Gomes said last week, "but if you pick up a newspaper, you're going to be scared of going."