and he sits on this coordination board that going to rio dejannero.ime they came was in march. the warning signs were there with the statements talking about serious delays. even the ioc president has had a meeting with the president of brazil earlier in the year. and john coats has been unstinting in his criticism here. you have these three different bodies in brazil that are vying for authority over the purse strings and deciding who is responsible for which, makes it a mind field for the organizers. >> there were similar fears surrounding athens, and that did come together in the end, so should we expect rio to pull it out of the hat? >> the ioc brought in their own specialists in terms of construction. in athens they were put on a yellow warning, and threatened by the then president with taking the games away, but they had to employ many more people and go overbudget to get everything ready on time. the worst example was back in 1976 when the stadium wasn't even open in montreal. so there's the real specter that everybody doesn't want to revisit.