Many are currently puzzled as to why a handball World Cup is taking place in Egypt at the height of a deadly epidemic.
Teams not arrived, game cancellations - the tournament mutates into a farce.
And that as the first major event in the year in which the much larger events, the European Football Championship and the Olympics, are to take place.
Many big bosses of the world sports federations have just grown up with the Rolling Stones and have heard with their own ears how Keith Richards, the guitarist, said of his singing rampage pig Mick Jagger: "If the sound is right, I also play with the devil."