More Carnival than clockwork, but Rio pulls it off

By Ossian Shine RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - In the end, it was a tale of two Games. Staged despite a lack of funds, deep recession and social turmoil, Rio de Janeiro unfurled South America's first Olympic Games hoping against hope that the power of sport would eclipse a seemingly endless list of problems. Try telling one of the 80,000 Brazilians crammed into the Maracana stadium, who roared deliriously as Neymar won Brazil football gold with a crisp last-kick penalty, that this Olympics was anything but a success.
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