Olympic champion Zanetti dissatisfied with conditions at home

London Olympic gymnastics champ on still rings, Arthur Zanetti of Brazil, is threatening to switch nationalities ahead of his upcoming hometown Games in Rio unless the nation’s Olympic Committee is willing to invest in his sport going forward.
“When I won the gold medal in London everybody said my life was going to change, but it hasn’t changed at all,” Zanetti told the TV Globo Sunday. Zanetti won his gold in London 2012 at the rings competition over defending champion Chen Yibing of China.
The Brazilian star hopes to win on his home soil in 2016, but promises of funding have gone unfulfilled. Now he’s getting a little antsy. “I have already begun thinking about competing for another country if the opportunity arises,” Zanetti, who’s forced to share the gym with 300 other athletes, added. “I would do it with a broken heart, because I am Brazilian and I like to be Brazilian. But if another country offered me what I needed, I would go.”