See you in Rio de Janeiro in 2016
They say that winning the bid to stage the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was not the difficult part. Frankly, with being the first city in South America to host the Olympic Games certainly put Rio ahead of the chasers. Let’s face it, Tokyo had lesser of a chance on account of the fact that Beijing had the last games in the region. Madrid would have been a repeat of Barcelona, though in a positive way, and Chicago, well, it was a long shot and as we know it it came last.
With over six million inhabitants, of which nearly 20% are said to live in favelas, a generic term for shanty towns in Brazil, dealing with the overcrowding and chaotic public transport system alone will be a major task to accomplish for the planners of the summer games 2016 in Rio. Of course Brazil is to host of the soccer World Cup in 2014 so they have an added intensive to get things right before the games two years after that.
We’ll be updating you on the progress made, whether the construction of the Olympic Village in Barra da Tijuca, the preparations around Lagoa Rodrigo De Freitas, Copacabana, or the Maracana Stadium, the Olympic Stadium, where the opening ceremony and track and field evens will take place.
