At the flame-lighting in the ruins of Ancient Olympia, Brazil’s sport minister Ricardo Leyser tried to assure the world about the troubled Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Hours later on Thursday back in Rio, a 150-feet section of a bike path built high above the sea, opened just three months ago as a legacy project for the games, crashed into the water below with at least two dead.

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