Major Events: Gymnastics, —6 p. There will also be coverage throughout the day of field hockey, water polo, volleyball, and beach volleyball. Major Events: Fencing, 8 a. There will also be coverage throughout the day of volleyball, beach volleyball, and soccer.
Major Events: Gymnastics, 3— p. There will also be coverage throughout the day of volleyball, field hockey, water polo, beach volleyball, and soccer. Major Events : Gymnastics, 3— p. There will also be coverage throughout the day of water polo, field hockey, and volleyball.
Major Events: Judo, — p. Major Events: Track and Field, a. Major Events: Rowing, — a. There will also be coverage of volleyball and water polo. She arrived at the favela in and raised her four children there. The acupuncturist recalls that when she found out about Rio de Janeiro being the Olympics host, she was hopeful the event would provide an opportunity to improve the quality of public spaces, but it had never crossed her mind she would be so negatively affected. This was in addition to other problems: rubble was left behind from the demolished houses, there was a rat infestation due to rubbish accumulation, and stray cats and dogs were left behind by the families who had opted for relocation.
She had to move houses so all the remaining families would be based in the same street where new residences were built. In May , Souza, along with her neighbours, founded the Evictions Museum at the Vila, in order to safeguard the memory of what once was the area and to advocate against other forced evictions around the world.
Seven sculptures made from rubble are exhibited there with each representing a significant place that had been removed. She also sees the Games in Brazil leaving more problems than solutions. The issue, she told Al Jazeera, was that it lacked planning from the decision makers. Otherwise, other projects and supposed priorities end up taking over and the existing built set is left aside by those who assume office next.
Paes, re-elected as Rio mayor last year, has meanwhile defended the work carried out for the Olympics. Souza, though, does not agree. A public transport user, she claims the BRTs were an excuse to remove various bus lines, which were very useful to the population.
The Federal Public Ministry and the Court of Accounts of the Union have pointed out suspicions of overbilling in the construction works during Rio , as well as reporting a lack of solid plans to manage the facilities. The president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee COB for 22 years, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, was arrested in for corruption and criminal organisation after allegedly purchasing votes of directors of the International Olympic Committee for the choice of Rio as the venue for the Games.
Among the commitments that were not fulfilled were the clean-up of the lagoon and Guanabara Bay, where the sailing competitions were held. The sewage and rubbish flowing into the bay should have been reduced by 80 percent by Across Brazil, property is established as much through force and possession as through official documents, falsified so frequently that there is a slang word for the practice: grilagem.
The word comes from grilo —grasshopper—because if you put grasshoppers in a drawer with your fake land title, their excrement will make it appear convincingly aged. Paulo Ramos, a state assemblyman from the opposition Socialism and Liberty Party, opened an official investigation into fraudulent titling in the Barra area. When I asked why his investigation, which analyzed documents stretching back decades, produced no indictments, Ramos pointed out that the assemblyman who was appointed as rapporteur openly admitted to being a personal friend of Carvalho.
But his penchant for testing the limits of the law is typical. He lives not far from the golf course on a sprawling ranch with five artificial lakes, where he raises buffalo and ostrich , and where, a few years ago, inspectors found workers laboring in allegedly slave-like conditions. Mauro was fined for this, but never faced criminal charges. He received me recently at his office, his shirt buttoned down far enough to reveal a tangle of white chest hair.
A large gold watch hung loosely around one wrist. During our three-hour interview, he threw back three espressos and smoked one Dunhill after the other. At one point, a bee floated toward him, and he clapped it between his hands. Mauro scoffed at the idea that his holdings could be illegitimate. Eager to prove his entrepreneurial bona fides, he explained how he had come to Rio from Italy at the age of eight, and started out reselling lottery tickets on the street.
In his teens he worked as a middleman in the fish trade. By his 20th birthday, he owned several newsstands. After cornering the local banana market, he became known as the Banana King, he told me.
He said he started buying land in Barra in the s because he saw, long before anyone else, that the city would end up expanding in that direction. When I asked Mauro how he wound up winning the contract to build the Olympic golf course, he said Paes had approached him.
Only begrudgingly did Mauro concede that, since , he had been trying to build a golf course in the Barra area to accompany a condo project. He had initially failed to obtain approval because much of the land, on the banks of Marapendi Lake, had been classified as an environmental protection area. At the inauguration of the golf course, he stood triumphantly on the green. He neglected to mention that the operation had belonged to Mauro himself—one of the many businesses that the old tycoon had proudly listed off to me.
Rio already had two golf courses that could have been refurbished, but Paes said neither fit the requirements of the Olympic organizers.
Ironically, several top golfers have since decided not to compete in the Olympics. Eight years under a different mayor would not have fundamentally transformed a divided city, even if that mayor had managed to put an end to the give-and-take between campaign donors and public servants. At this point, perhaps the best Olympic legacy that Brazilians can hope for is that the event will serve as a cautionary tale to future generations.
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