claim: "took on the olympics and turned them around"
author: mitt romney
evidence_1: sep 27, 2007 ... by his own account, romney almost single-handedly saved the 2002 winter  olympics in salt lake city. his new television ad says he "took on the bankrupt  olympics and turned them around." another ad: "an olympics hit by scandal and  deficits, he rescued them." he's written a book titled turnaround: ...
evidence_2: aug 21, 2016 ... brazil has brought down the curtain on the rio olympics – historic for seeing the  first-ever refugee team take part – with a glittering ceremony celebrating the  many facets ... the closing ceremony continued the theme of honouring cultural  differences in the way brazil knows best: colourful music and dance.
evidence_3: feb 22, 2014 ... venues like the bolshoy ice dome and fisht stadium have dazzled athletes and  fans alike during the olympics in sochi. but what will become of them when the  olympic flame is extinguished and time marches on?the arenas, ice rinks and  ski slopes, which took years and cost billions to construct, are ...
evidence_4: aug 17, 2016 ... now, with the vast sums thrown at team gb and athletes declared 'heroes', we're  copying them. ... with the connivance of the international olympic committee,  they turned what used to be an amateur sport into the equivalent of a national  defence force, hurling money and ... of course many took drugs.
evidence_5: 2 days ago ... matt lauer allegedly sexually harassed a female nbc staffer during the sochi  winter olympics in 2014, sources told page six. an nbc insider .... “we were  both woken up with the news, kind of pre-dawn, and we're trying to process it and  trying to make sense of it — and it'll take some time for that.” “today” ...