Much as we'd all like to poke fun at massive spoiled-and-entitled-rich-people cockups, I can't help but (a) feel a bit sympathetic for all the really poorly paid athletes-in-forgotten-sports from my country that are following their passion, and not getting all fat on a gravy train, and are walking into this mess, and (b) feel that the more this turns into a dog's breakfast, the less good that's going to be for international relations between Russia and we smug decadent westerners.

I don't have very much sympathy at all for media pundits pointing fingers at disaster in such a cavalier manner, nor commenters on media punditry pointing fingers at Russian commenters because "they can't even talk right". (And, yes, yes, I know, Never Read The Comments.™)