Interesting one, this. Last week, Brazil-based foreign correspondent Andrew Downie wrote a story for Time.com about the closure of the Engenhão, Brazil’s 2016 Olympic stadium, due to concerns over its structural integrity. Even if, like me, you’re already cynical about the whole Olympic-games-as-development idea, it’s a bit of an eye-opener.

The Pan Am Games’ João Havelange Stadium — now intended for the track-and-field competitions in the 2016 Olympics — has just been closed because it’s in danger of collapse. The velodrome is about to be knocked down because it isn’t up to Olympic standards. And a handful of other venues are being modernized or upgraded because they simply aren’t good enough.

But one the same day the article was published, he took to his personal blog to vent some frustration after Time editors wielded the scalpel claiming that, in his words, “it was too opinionated.” The uncensored version is slightly more emphatic.

“What I wanted to say loud and clear, and have been saying in conversation for years, is this: The people who ran Rio’s 2007 Pan American Games and who are organising the next Olympics are guilty of either deceit or bad planning or both.

For the Pan Ams they promised the city of Rio 54km of new metro, a light railway line and a new highway.

They did none of it.

The games were at least six times over budget and the justification was that the venues and facilities were expensive because they were of Olympic standard.

They are not.”