The live events give NBC “confidence in committing to our advertisers the types of numbers that we think we can reach”, Winter said.
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The final cost of the Olympic Games that Rio de Janeiro will host from Friday until August 21 will be 30 percent lower than initial estimates, thanks to many investments from private initiatives, informed Rio de Janeiro’s Mayor Eduardo Paes on Thursday.
The mugger struck at around midday on Thursday as Mr Braga was waiting for traffic to start moving again after the Olympic torch had passed by on Avenida das Americas in the Barra da Tijuca district of Rio, close to the Olympic Park and athletes’ village.
Speaking on the eve of the opening ceremony, Bach said organisers and the International Olympic Committee had braved and survived Brazil’s economic meltdown and political turmoil.
The German, who became International Olympic Committee president in 2013, claimed that by allowing Russian athletes to compete at the Games they would act as an example to others.
The country’s track-and-field athletes and weightlifters have already been barred over doping offences, and Russian Federation narrowly avoided a complete ban over allegations its government and FSB security service systematically covered up widespread cheating.
“With this respect for individual justice we can also send a very clear message to clean athletes and to those in Russian Federation in particular”, he said.
“We undertook a proposed comprehensive reanalysis program ever with regard to the Olympic Games 2008 and 2012”, he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting with the Russian Olympic team in the Kremlin in Moscow, on July 27, 2016.
Rio enjoyed a financial boom when it was awarded Olympics in 2009.
Zhukov also said it was unfair that Russian sports stars such as double Olympic champion pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva would now watch the Games from home while past doping offenders including top USA runner Justin Gatlin took to the field.
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“There were huge, huge challenges”, Bach said.
