“It’s great to welcome back the household names who lit up London 2012 but I’m also sure the country can look forward to new heroes emerging in the Olympic Stadium in Rio”, said Chef de Mission Mark England.
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They have said their biggest concern during the Olympics is not the threat of a coordinated attack by known militants, but the possibility that a lone actor or group sympathetic to militant causes could seek to target the event.
Ohuruogu, Britain’s most decorated female athlete, was handed an Olympic lifeline after being selected ahead of Anyika Onuora in the 400m, despite finishing behind the Liverpudlian at last week’s European Championships. “The important thing for us and the Olympic Games is to show Brazil as it is, with the colors, with the brightness, with the beauty of the mixture of people that we have here; the mixture of roots that we have”.
Pavey, 42. European champion in 2014 and a mother of two, will also be the oldest British woman to run at a Games.
The collection, made by 12 Brazilian artists and a Colombian, went on display on Tuesday at the Museum of Tomorrow, the modernist building built by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava in Rio’s renovated port area. The Rio’s Olympic organizing committee confirmed the government’s snap decision, adding it was in the process of “reaching out” to the state-owned oil company Petrobras, and other firms for sponsorship because getting gasoline to run the generators is a priority. Brazilians include the street artist Kobra, the painter Juarez Machado and artist-architect Gringo Cardia.
On July 18 the posters will be on sale in Rio 2016 stores around the city, in two sizes.
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The military will begin patrolling spots venues on July 24. “One for each taste”.
