Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes says the city will be ready for the games.
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Following criticisms of water quality, police violence, forced relocations and excessive benefits to private developers, the mayor countered with a positive vision of how Rio was transforming as a result of the Games.
“We’ve certainly got as strong a team as we’ve had in recent Games and feel confident that we’re going to be able to go into the Olympics and come away with another significant contribution to the Team GB medal haul”.
The new Trans-Olimpica tunnel that will connect the Athletes’ village and the Olympic park is far from finished.
NBC will launch promotional advertisements for the Summer Olympics beginning Wednesday across its networks, a move to generate excitement among viewers one-year in advance of the event.
An Associated Press study released last week showed dangerously high levels of viruses in all water-related venues.
Brazilian athletes ride their horses in the Olympic Equestrian…
“If there is a problem, we will react”. There are debates over whether Olympics are good for cities or burdensome vanity projects, but in Rio the occasion has been an opportunity to escape decades of under-investment, Nuzman said.
The Olympic initiative comes three weeks after Aldi signed an agreement with the National Farmers Union (NFU), which the NFU said “could change the face of retailer and supplier relations in this country”.
“We’ve heard from athletes that have swum with fish, so there are some discrepancies”, Nuzman said.
This was little consolation to the residents of the nearby Vila Autódromo community, some of whom are being forcibly relocated to make way for the development.
The Agriculture Ministry says at least one horse diagnosed with glanders and subsequently killed to stop the disease from spreading had spent several months in Deodoro, which is just a few hundred meters from the Olympic site.
Bach said athletes’ health was the priority for the committee and that all guidelines were being followed.
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A musical homage to Brazilian culture formed the finale of a ceremony tonight attended by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) counterpart Thomas Bach marking exactly one year until the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
