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Rio 2016 organizers and city officials have not talked about how the weak market could affect the potential for development of the 12.7-million-square-foot Olympic Park and its environs.
Rio de Janeiro's city hall said Tuesday that the Deodoro Olympic Park, which was to be used as a park and recreation area after the games, has been closed. Deodoro was the second-largest venue ...
Last year, during the 2016 Summer Games, it would have been hard to imagine the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro sitting empty in the hot Brazilian sun. Sadly, this is what has become of the space ...
An aerial view shows the Olympic park which was used for Rio 2016 Olympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 15, 2017. Picture taken January 15, 2017. Nacho Doce/Reuters — -- The exciteme ...
NBC’s cameras are a beautifying prism that show off the best parts of Rio Olympic Park. In reality, the park and the surrounding area of Barra Da Tijuca are far from the glamour of Copacabana ...
When Rio opened its Olympic Park this month there was one thing conspicuously absent around the venues, walkways and public areas where visitors will gather to watch 16 sports in August ...
“In this aspect, Rio is a failure.” Nobody understands this more than the fishermen who live near the main Olympic Park and athletes village, situated on the picturesque Jacarepagua Lagoo ...
Inbee Park ran away with the ... leads by four trying to win Olympic gold. That's golf. — Jason Sobel (@JasonSobelESPN) August 20, 2016 Her performance in Rio was sublime, though.
“There are no words for what is happening.” Rio 2016's slogan is “a new world.” But outside the gleaming Olympic Park, that new world has no room for the poor, da Silva said. Critics say ...