OCI remain knee-deep in Rio clean-up operation

It’s been ten months and two days since the closing ceremony at the Maracana Stadium brought an end to a deeply flawed extravaganza in Brazil but, for the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), Rio 2016 is the Games that never ended.

The world moved on last August 21 and Ireland eventually followed suit once Pat Hickey was allowed return home and the ongoing complexities of the ticketing scandal that enveloped him showed no sign of unspooling into a neat and tidy ending.

The OCI didn’t have that luxury and the extent of the mess still to be cleaned up was made clear yesterday afternoon when Sarah Keane, voted in as Hickey’s successor as president last February, updated the media at a city centre hotel in Dublin prior to their AGM.