We need to talk about the Olympics. Again.

A year ago, Rio was popping. The Summer Games were entering their second week, and despite anxieties about preparation, environmental hazards, security and Zika, the Olympics did that thing the Olympics tend to do, which is to push back against all the bad press with a stirring wave of athletic greatness. There was plenty of it last August: Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky, Usain Bolt, Simone Biles, Monica Puig, the host country’s men’s soccer team, and on and on.

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