I'm still watching this horrible news out of Mexico. Again, as I said yesterday, it really is incredible that 31 years ago, less than a year after a massive earthquake that killed thousands, Mexico hosted a World Cup. Today it was announced that two paralympic events, swimming and power lifting, due to be held in Mexico City, have been postponed. Maybe, thankfully, priorities are in order these days.
The 1986 World Cup was originally awarded to Colombia but political and financial turmoil in the country forced Colombia to give up on hosting and Mexico was chosen by Fifa as a replacement, three and a half years before the start of the World Cup.
World Cups or not, let's hope that deadly earthquakes and hurricanes are done for a while and that these people can recover.
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