The Rio Farce, Day -2: Hope Solo Gets Booed Out of the Stadium!!!

• Well, as if Hope Solo isn't controversial enough, her mouth and her views on the Zika virus in Brazil have gotten her even more heat.  The US women's soccer goalkeeper was booed, whistled at (not wolf-whistled -- in many parts of the world, whistling is part of booing!), and jeered for an Instagram post in which she said she "wasn't having it" and was "#ZikaProof" -- with a picture of her having a mosquito net over her face.  The crowd at Bela Horizonte appears to now want Solo to contract the disease!  In fact, at one point, it sounded to the NBC Sports Network broadcast that Solo was being told, in English, to "GET OUT!" of the Olympics.  The USA defeated New Zealand in pool play 2-0.
• The refereeing did not get off to an auspicious start in these Olympics, as the referee of the opening soccer match between South Africa and Sweden missed a corner kick for Sweden six minutes into the match -- and then made up the call with a bad call to give a corner kick to Sweden seven minutes later.  Neither factored in a 1-0 Sweden victory over a plucky and brave South African side.
• The last match of the day also seemed to have some refereeing problems, as France not only sought to rough up Colombia on the scoreboard, but by fouling them as well!  The foul count for France must've reached 20, and with about 10 more missed!  France defeated the overmatched Colombians 4-0.
• Fear not, as Nintendo and Niantic have greased enough skids:  Pokemon Go WILL be available in the Olympic areas.  Source?  NBC and their late-night Olympic host...  Ryan Seacrest.  (Yes, HIM!!  You may commence groaning at your leisure.)
• Canada made Olympic history twice.  An Australian defensive gaffe gave Canada the fastest Olympic goal in history at 19 seconds.  However, they also got the fastest Olympic direct red card for a denial of a goal scoring opportunity in the 19th minute.  Undaunted, Canada upset the Australians anyway, 2-0.
• The Olympic torch is in Rio, and Rio doesn't like it!  Protests are following the final three days of the torch relay to Friday night's mystery cauldron-lighter.  Rubber bullets and tear gas were needed to complete today's relay through neighborhoods. (Deadspin)  One of the people shot by rubber bullets by police was aged ten!
• According to the CBC, the new security efforts to try to get these Games in without interruption are going to employ 85,000 police.  Not coincidentally, 1.3 million tickets for events during the Games around Rio (this does count several of the soccer matches where empty seats probably outnumbered spectators by quite a few to one!!) remain unsold.
• Among the items for the IOC meetings before the Games are four new sports and a returning two for Tokyo:  Baseball and softball will return in 2020.  Karate, skateboarding, surfing, and sport climbing will join them.
• The Russian weightlifting team has lost their final appeal of their ban due to the WADA report today.
• World Sailing has reallowed a banned Russian to compete in Rio.  Pavel Sozykin will now compete.
• Speaking of Friday night's highlight moment, it appears there has been a major break with tradition.  Several reports cited by Inside The Games (who also is the source of the three previous bullet points) indicate that Pele has been invited to light the cauldron.  Usually, this is a secretive situation, with the result only known when the final person comes out (which see Muhammad Ali in his iconic moment in Atlanta, and the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team in full doing the honors in Salt Lake City).
• Now I'm not sure if this is Pele actually having this problem or he's trying to put the genie back in the bottle, but he's reported that he is actually required by sponsors to be at an event elsewhere on Friday.  I would have to think this can be arranged, as, to put bluntly, if there's any Brazilian other than Pele to light the cauldron, I'd like to know who...