In the end, it's all water under the bridge

Rio de Janeiro

NOW that the Rio Olympics are finally ending, you can imagine how the organisers of these Games might celebrate.

On the soft, wide sands of Copacabana Beach, looking out at the Atlantic. In one hand, a newspaper declaring Brazil the Olympic champion in men's football and volleyball, a perfect ending. In the other, a pen. It's to write I-told-you-so letters to naysayers who said these games would be a disaster.