Rio de Janeiro Mayor Says City Will be Ready for 2016 Olympics

“We completed all the protocols, double-checked, triple-checked, ” he said. “We need to have a situation where we have all, or almost all, of our ten events as possibilities of realistic medal positions if we want to be successful in winning a number of medals next year, and right now I think we’re looking good for that”.

The decision to vote golf back into the Olympics back in 2009 is turning out to be a lucrative one, though there has been some controversy over the sport’s format during the Summer Games.

The new Trans-Olimpica tunnel that will connect the Athletes’ village and the Olympic park is far from finished.

Park says the team is enjoying its time in Rio, in spite of some well-documented challenges with the venue.

“I am working hard every day to make it a “triple triple” in Rio next year. It is on time and delivered more cheaply than in the bid”.

An Associated Press study released last week showed dangerously high levels of disease-causing viruses in all water-related venues, and the World Health Organization has asked the IOC to pursue viral testing in Rio during the next year.

Certainly for this upcoming Test Event the venue is going to be a bit of a challenge, as the building goes on around us.

The Olympic initiative comes three weeks after Aldi signed an agreement with the National Farmers Union (NFU), which the NFU said “could change the face of retailer and supplier relations in this country”.

He claimed reports of water problems had been proven exaggerated because athletes at test events said they saw fish while they were swimming.

Paes also countered criticisms that the private investors in the Games are benefiting disproportionately.

One year before the 2016 Olympics’ August 6 opening ceremony, Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes touted the city’s progress on a slew of projects that once seemed unlikely to have a happy ending.

The agriculture ministry says at least one horse diagnosed with glanders and subsequently killed to stop the disease from spreading had spent several months at the Army Equestrian Complex in Deodoro, which is just a few hundred metres from the Olympic site.

At a ceremony, visiting IOC chief Thomas Bach praised the preparations, while President Dilma Rousseff vowed Brazil would “delight” the world.

“It has to be monitored closely”, Bach said.