It’s a bold team, considering the climate of politics this year. Well. It’s a bold team, considering the brash confrontation of reality required for these athletes to simply step onto the stadium’s spongy track there in Rio. After all, beneath whose flag would they walk? And who would fund their sportswear, their tickets? Something says their uniforms weren’t designed by Ralph Lauren. No, this group is stitched together by something else entirely. Perhaps it’s hope.