The Rio Farce, Day 0, Part About Six???: Darren Rovell, stick to what you know...

I have to put this idiocy on full display from ESPN Business Insider Darren Rovell:

Olympic torch lighting replacement for Pele is Vanderlei de Lima. Which is the world scale equivalent of replacing MJ with Pete Myers.

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) August 6, 2016

Oh GOOD GOD!!!

Maybe the Olympics are about more than just the gold and the money and the USA and the world impact...  The fact of what de Lima went through in Athens, and how he rose above it, made him the perfect person to stand atop the place and light the cauldron, as movie historian Rhett Bartlett correctly pointed out:

Vanderlei de Lima never got to stand alone at the top, after spectator interfered at 2004 Olympics

Tonight he did pic.twitter.com/TZggTJZgJ8

— Rhett Bartlett (@dialmformovies) August 6, 2016