John Oliver’s second segment devoted to the the opening of the Rio Olympics, touches upon Brazil’s political turmoil, with juicy insider information on the bizarre and kinky lives of the politicos involved, and an interview with a member of the first refugee team ever.
John Oliver took issue with Thomas Bach, IOW President. Back’s rhetoric seems to have shot past the entire purpose of the Olympics. While the nations are joined and competing on even footing – his speech did seem to miss the point.
Bach said in part that the one universal law for everybody is in this Olympic world – “we are all equals.”
John: “That is simply not true. If that were the case, you would not need to have an Olympics. The whole reason we do this is to find out who is better than everyone else, so that we can make them stand higher than the other people who are not as good as them. Because the point of the games is not to celebrate equality,it is to celebrate individual excellence. So let us all settle in for two incredible weeks of celebrating the bravest the fittest, the most beautiful – and of course, the drunkest of us all!”
Hoda Kotb from TODAY – seen admiring the Tonga flag-bearer: “Did somebody say PARTY?!”