By Frank Deford
The Brazilian Olympic Committee president shows the lantern containing the Olympic flame brought from Greece as he deplanes in Brasilia on May 3. The three-month torch relay across Brazil will end at the opening ceremony on Aug. 5 at Maracana stadium in Rio. Eraldo Peres/AP hide caption
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On Thursday, it’ll be three months ’til the Olympics begin. Usually, there’d be a panic now that construction was way behind schedule, but, incredibly, only a couple of major projects remain incomplete in Rio.
No, rather the question remains how much can go haywire during the Games to distract us from our enchanting presidential campaign.
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