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Rio can be a bad place. When I went to Rio for the world Cup, my taxi driver from the airport told me that at night we would not stop at red lights for fear of being robbed. The ticket he would get would be less money would be less than the money he made that night.

That being said, I stayed on the boardwalk of copacabana Beach at a hotel and there was never a problem day or night. If you stay in the tourist sections, the post guards and the area is very safe

> but you couldn't pay me enough money to go to the 2016 Olympics.

Weelllll, with enough money you could hire body guards, or just not worry about how much is stolen from you :)

I know you're messing around, but that's a lot of unnecessary risk for a reward that I can just delay for four or eight years when the Olympics are in a reasonable country.

http://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/632851/child-mugger...

The concern isn't for the spectators or competitors but for the rest of the world as both return home and accelerate the spread of the Zika virus.