RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Motorists will pay a fine of about $425 if they are caught driving in special Olympic lanes set aside for the Rio de Janeiro Games.
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The Spanish Olympic Committee says Rafael Nadal will be Spain’s flag-bearer at the Rio de Janeiro Games.
The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio are just 100 days away.
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday launched the 100 day countdown to hosting South America’s first Olympic Games with government and global sports leaders insisting they can overcome Brazil’s political meltdown and troubled preparations. Britain unveiled its Olympic uniform designed by Stella McCartney.
While the $12.5 million path, named after a famous Brazilian musician and built by the firm Concremat, wasn’t planned to be used for an official event, it’s one of a number of legacy and Olympic projects now being built across the country. President Dilma Rousseff is facing impeachment, the economy is in severe recession and the country is at the epicenter of the Zika virus outbreak.
They say that the stadiums are 98% ready, however.
Officers have killed 11 people in the favelas so far this month, Amnesty said, and were behind 307 such deaths a year ago.
The city of Rio, noted for its famed beaches, is also notorious for its crime.
There, in the presence of Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos, Greek Olympic authorities will hand the torch to the Brazilian delegation, headed by Minister of Sport Ricardo Leyser, and the ministers of the Organizing Committee of the Games, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, and of the Olympic Public Authority, Marcelo Pedroso.
In commemoration of the first Olympics in Brazil the white marble stadium in the center of Athens will be lit overnight in the green and yellow of the Brazilian flag.
The flame will light the cauldron at the Maracana Stadium during the opening ceremony.
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The Olympics themselves are dealing with controversy. She acknowledged the strain.
