Despite of Zika, policemen strike, pollution and the challenges that faced ‪#‎Rio_de_Janeiro‬, the Brazilian hosting city of the 31st version of the Summer Olympic Games, however the city, headed by the mayor, got it made in arranging one of the most joyful Olympics in the history as declared by the majority of world media.

Notwithstanding the existence of twitching, as we as very big crowd in Rio, however the viewers and the audience, who are following and going after their national teams from all over the world, are enjoying their time there and they declared several times "we feel happiness in the Olympic park, when we meet our national champs and talk to them face to face, celebrating their winnings of medals, and also we like existing in Brazil the country of Samba and Liberty, we feel we can do anything we want without annoyance from anyone and we feel safe too".

Not only that but also, even in the sports to which ‪#‎Brazil‬ has no strong track record e.g. Gymnastics and Swimming, we found out that Brazil achieved not medals, but honorable performance that compatible with the exclusive international professional standards of the competitive athletes that always found especially in Olympics.
Concerning the economic factor of the games, we know that Olympics is not estimated as an industrial or commercial project, because according to the estimates of the global economic entities, the expected total cost of Rio Olympics is about $ 11 Billion, however the gains and the revenue is estimated for $ 9 Billion, bearing in mind that the Brazilian economy is growing faster, and Brazil is one of ‪#‎BRICS‬ countries, the main issue here how to sustain the profitable use in the future of the facilities and the infrastructure made in Rio to flourish the economy of the province of Rio? and make the residents get the profit of it in the future, because the profits mostly in this time being will return to the investors not the people, whom a big part of them suffer from unemployment and poverty, because the population is very big.

Because in both of Sydney and Athens Olympics, the problem of the post use of the Olympic facilities is considered as a nightmare after the end of the Olympics, whereas the municipalities should plane well for that before kicking off the Olympics.

Away from this economic debatable part of the Olympics, it is a big fun and entertainment to see professional players from 206 countries are competing together and embracing the slogan of the "Fair Game – the higher, the faster and the stronger", under spots of the world media around the world, when any country is waiting its champs to score a new Olympic or world record, or gain a medal of the first three ranking, as its flag is flying higher than the flags of 206 states, what a honor!!

In addition, the sport is considered as one of the countries' progress and civilization scales, because in this Olympics some countries never achieved any medal before, achieved even gold medals, like the team of Fiji in Rugby, as well as the far east countries who achieved medals in individual sports, like shooting and archery, as well as weight lifting and boxing, Not talking about China and Japan, because they already compete with USA, Russia, Britain, Canada, Germany Australia and France, but Iran, Brazil, North Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, where they replaced some Arab states like Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia in ranking, that reflects how much such countries are struggling to win medals in Olympics, and how much they supply the right circumstances for their champs to win, for the importance of the Olympics, as an event taking place only each 4 years, and it is more greater than world championships, because Olympic medals are recorded in history.

The bad thing that could happen is to refer the political disputes to Olympics or sports, because Olympics is important event that unite the whole world regardless religion, race, nationality and gender, therefore president ‪#‎Putin‬ interfered by himself to stop the unjust decision of "the International Olympic Committee - ‪#‎IOC‬" represented in preventing all the Russian athletes to participate in Rio 2016 for some individual doping incidents, whereas Putin used the International media pressures and conferences he attended to stress on such point that sports cannot be anyway politicized, as a part of the sanctions that practiced from the majority of the west on Russia, and when the IOC accepted the participation of the Russian athletes provided that the athletics players would be excluded, as well as IOC insisted on taking a daily blood samples from the participating Russian athletes for doping analysis, in a very offensive procedure, as well as they insisted on preventing the qualified Russian handicap athletes to participate in Para-Olympics.
And despite of that, Russia achieved to date not less than 20 medals and athletes never yielded to such pressures that could make them lose their concentration or objectives, but as I said here-above the level of the athletes become higher and more competitive than before, because ‪#‎China‬ and ‪#‎Japan‬ now are in the second and third ranking consecutively after ‪#‎USA‬, whereas Russia is not anymore No 1, as before for several years, in games like Gymnastics and Swimming, however Russia is a very big case in sports and should be reviewed very well by our side as Arab countries.

With contrary to the situation of some Arab states including even my country Egypt, when there was struggle for the Egyptian athletes to participate in Rio, the first case was for Ms. ‪#‎Sarah_Ahmed‬, the weight-lifter, 18 years old, who won the bronze medal couple of days before, when she has a problem before the camp with the Ministry of education concerning attending the exams of the high school to be admitted by the university, and how was there an absence of coordination amid the Egyptian Olympic committee, the Ministry of Youth and Sport and the Ministry of Education, in my point of view all of them are liable for negligence, because for an Olympic champ, all problems should be solved especially when it is only an administrative problem, the matter that would made her concentrate and could bring gold or silver medal.

The second case also for the bearer of the bronze medal in Rio 2016, the Egyptian weight-lifter, Mr. ‪#‎Mohamed_Ihab‬, 25 years old, who made us crying according to his insistence on winning a medal, and then when he was interviewed by some Arab Sports Channels and said that he suffered a lot financially to attend rio and he borrowed money from all the people around him to prepare himself well for the Olympics and to raise the name of Egypt, the matter that made me wonder, where is the role of the Egyptian Olympic committee and the Ministry of Youth and Sport? Where is the Egyptian Billionairs, who owns media channels, big real estates, big commercial and industrial groups from such serious youth? Why we should resort to the Egyptian Armed Forces to care of our athletes, when it is not their role? And then we ask the Armed Forces stay away from our civil life.

The third case is the case of the Kuwaiti shooter Mr. ‪#‎Al_Dayhani‬, the bearer of the golden medal in Rio 2016, because according to a domestic administrative problem between the Kuwaiti Shooting Federation and the Kuwaiti Olympic Committee, they refused sending any shooter to participate in Rio Olympics under the flag of Kuwait, the matter that made Al-Dayhani resort to IOC to participate under its flag, instead of Kuwait, like the refugees, who participated for the first time in Olympics under the same flag of IOC, bearing in mind that Dayhani got the bronze medal in shooting in London Olympics 2012, the catastrophe that Kuwait was deprived from counting such golden medal as a Kuwaiti medal for the stupidity of the administration, when the medal now belongs to IOC.

The fourth case is importing expatriate athletes to play under my flag for money especially in ‪#‎GCC‬, the matter I do not respect because if such amounts paid to expatriates invested in growing local athletic capabilities, it will bring a lot of national champs in the future on the long round, because this case remind me by importing mercenaries, do not ever convince us that expatriates will be national or patriot in a day and night, and what about if such GCC occur to a big insolvency or a war, will expatriates remain or leave?!!!!

Actually, Rio Olympics disclosed Arabs private parts, because it has shown how much the retardation the Arabs (I belong to them) have in sports, and how much we neglect our youth, how much we have a cultural and civilizational lag and lack, and how much we spent-thrift our resources in destruction of our youth not growing them and disseminating religious and sectarian hate, and how much we have no plans and 2030 plan is just a big joke, and we have doubts that the Arab League has even met one time to solve the youth problems, where the Arab youth fund is empty, and where is the Arab athletic strategy for even Tokyo Olympics?!!!!

At the end, we do not want to frustrate the Arab youth, but we should act scientifically, creating a well-made athletic plan with an applicable strategy to implement such plan with well-estimated timetable, having a coordination among the concerned entities like Ministry of Youth, Ministry of Education and the National Olympic Committee to solve the problems of the athletes, of course the financial sponsorship is very important, because most of our players are suffering from the need of the right support, therefore either governments, armed forces, businessmen or universities have to sponsor qualified and good athletes financially and intellectually, because the athletes should be exposed to cultural programs including presentation, PR and language skills, where they are representing our countries as ambassadors amid thousands of players from worldwide, and their conduct should be unique, as far as possible, the matter that leaves good impressions on the athletes of the other countries.

Finally, Olympics are a real and good chance for any participant country, and also considered as a free of charge international PR campaign, would we take such chance in a perfect manner? Otherwise we will cry on spilt milk as usual.

I am going to cite the Hadith of Prophet Mohamed PBUH "Train your sons on Swimming, Archery and Horse-Riding" words said since 1500 years before, are we committed with what prophet said?!!!

Be guided accordingly.

Ahmed Moustafa: Political Economy Researcher – CODESRIA Member