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Now it's just one month for the first Olympiads in South America.
After many challenges, political crisis and sensationalism, here we go!!
‘Brazil awaits you with open arms,’ says Brazil's Interim President ahead of Olympic Games
With 30 days until the world’s greatest sporting event is scheduled to begin, Brazil can say with confidence: we are ready to host the first Olympic and Paralympic Games to take place in South America. The Olympic Village, housing more than 17,000 participating athletes in one of Rio de Janeiro’s most beautiful settings, has just been inaugurated. All sports facilities, especially those serving the Olympic Park in the Barra da Tijuca neighbourhood, are also up and ready. The country has put together a solid security programme of 85,000 federal, state and municipal government personnel to ensure that sporting events take place in an atmosphere of absolute peace and tranquility. This contingent of security personnel will work in an integrated fashion, overseeing the protection of athletes, coaching staff, heads of state, government officials, local residents and journalists. This will not be Brazil's first opportunity to show the world its capacity for organisation, and to welcome visitors warmly to a secure environment. Over the past few years, our country has developed an expertise in hosting mega-events on an international scale. We hosted the World Cup, the Pan-American Games, the World Military Games, World Youth Day and the Confederations Cup – all unanimous successes, which we conducted in a spirit of excellence, dedication and with the characteristic Brazilian joie de vivre.
And now, another success is on its way. The Games will show the world one of the major global economies at work in a mature democracy: a country with great business potential that at the same time has set the standard for policies to fight inequality. Rio de Janeiro is expected to receive hundreds of thousands of visitors from Brazil and abroad during the Games, while the five “Football Cities” – São Paulo, Salvador, Manaus, Brasília and Belo Horizonte – will also find themselves inundated with local and foreign fans. Hosting events on this scale represents both a momentous accomplishment for the Brazilian people and a source of immense national pride. It should be emphasised that 60 per cent, US$2.18 billion, of the total investment in the Olympic facilities were financed by the private sector. These resources and efforts will remain as legacies to the entire country. For instance, the Games will disseminate throughout Brazil the hallmark values of competitive sports: cooperation, solidarity, discipline and resiliency. As a more concrete benefit, Brazilians throughout the country’s five geographic regions will also inherit a national sports training network of world-class facilities for both sports beginners and high-performance athletes. Finally, in Rio de Janeiro, the Games have greatly influenced the implementation of public policy, causing the city to fast track, expand and even initiate many municipal infrastructure and mobility projects. The direct, favorable impact of these policies on the quality of life of the city’s residents is evident.
Over the past few weeks, rumour of the possibility of an outbreak of tropical-disease during the Games has circulated. We can assure you – as has the World Health Organisation – that the risk of zika infection during the Games is practically non-existent. Historically, an extremely low incidence of disease transmitted by the aedes aegypti mosquito has been recorded during the winter season in the southern hemisphere. Indeed, there has been a dramatic decline in cases of zika infection in Rio de Janeiro and throughout Brazil in the past few weeks. I recall a similar prediction of epidemic during the 2014 World Cup tournament in Brazil, when we hosted 1.4 million foreign visitors. No epidemic occurred. Then as now, tourists can be assured of favorable health conditions during the Olympic Games. Brazil is ready to receive all of the visitors who will be enjoying the pleasure of watching the world's elite international sports athletes compete, and, surely, we will have a great deal to show the five billion viewers from around the world who will be watching the Games as well. Brazil awaits you with open arms.
If anyone already has a trip to Rio for the Olympics and would like to give away their trip PLEASE direct message I would LOVE to take your place!!! You can choose to see the bad side of things or just roll with it and enjoy it for what it is worth. The games are not in a war zone. MAN vs Mosquito is less of a deal then people are making it out to be ... WEAR bug replant!!! If you are not pregnant ... I am not sure what all the drama is about. Mr. Falcon as our resident contact for Brazil please continue to provide updates on the games. I honestly wish I could go.
This woman is predicting by numerology, tarot and gipsy deck that will occur terrorist attempts, intense turmoil and the government of Brazil will be replaced for unknown power.
If anyone already has a trip to Rio for the Olympics and would like to give away their trip PLEASE direct message I would LOVE to take your place!!! You can choose to see the bad side of things or just roll with it and enjoy it for what it is worth. The games are not in a war zone. MAN vs Mosquito is less of a deal then people are making it out to be ... WEAR bug replant!!! If you are not pregnant ... I am not sure what all the drama is about. Mr. Falcon as our resident contact for Brazil please continue to provide updates on the games. I honestly wish I could go.
No kidding, i'll take anyones tickets if they decide not to go.
Bad stuff has been happening in Rio for a while- it is sad but they are focusing on all of the details now because of the civil unrest that brought the world's attention to Brazil.
Whatever- bad things happen everywhere, on different scales and in different ways.
My attitude is this .... things in most places can change over night ex Paris, Orlando, Cario, Toronto .... Rio .... Anywhere! The games are happening ..... People need to get over the negativeness and embrace the spirit of the event because it is happening!
He's already the most decorated Olympian of all time, but Michael Phelps will be on the hunt for more medals come August after booking his place Wednesday at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
Phelps, who has 22 Olympic medals to his name, clocked a time of one minute 54.84 seconds to take first place in the final of the 200-meter butterfly at the U.S. swimming trials in Omaha, Nebraska.
In doing so, Phelps became the first man to make a fifth U.S. Olympic swimming team. Michael Phelps qualifies for record fifth Olympic Games - CNN.com
Phelps, 31, said after qualifying: "That was probably harder than any swim I have had in my life."
Wind-Jammer Sagres School will be the Portuguese House during the Olympics.
This ship once belonged the German, Brazilian and since 1962, Portuguese Navy.
During Olympic games it will be will be anchored by Rio's Downtown, receiving visitors of the House of Portugal and simultaneously, contacts between them and the Portuguese staff that will make the media coverage of the Olympic Games.
This is a unique opportunity to promote the country and our language in what will be the first edition ever of each Olympic Games in a Portuguese-speaking nation.
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