Yea, I've been following this all day. Incredible development, really. Many, many millions (or billions,) of $ have been spent, or committed, by large corporations and privateers alike. Years of people's lives have been built around these next two weeks. And they do not even get to run the two days in Portugal.
I cannot begin to be able to explain world politics in any way to make sense of this; but I am indeed thankful that none of the participants of this years rally will be harmed, it seems.
I'll post more when I can speak about it in a sensible way.