Rio’s World Cup and Olympic Legacy: Infrastructure
By Helen Trouten Torres, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Cities across the globe are using mega events like the World Cup and Olympics to catalyze urban development and social and economic change. Being a host city is a way in which cities can express their personality, enhance their status, and advertise their position [...]
Maracanã Workers on Strike: Daily
By Patricia Maresch, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Work on Rio’s Maracanã Stadium, the center of the 2014 World Cup, has been halted by a strike following an explosion on Wednesday that left one employee badly wounded. Workers say conditions are unsafe, and besides improved safety standards, workers also demand better pay, [...]
Military World Games Come to Rio
By Sam Green, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Soldiers from Brazil and the United States will take on servicemen from Iran, North Korea and Venezuela in Rio this weekend – but Cariocas need not worry as the clashes will happen on sports fields rather than battlefields. The fifth Military World Games will be [...]
Rio 2016 Olympic Progress Gets Praise
By Sam Green, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Rio is among the cities which will benefit the most from hosting the Olympic Games in the history of the event, according to Gilbert Felli, the IOC’s Olympic Games executive director. Felli was speaking at the end of a three-day inspection of the city after [...]
Playing Golf in Rio de Janeiro
By Rob Sawers, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – It’s official: golf will be played for the first time since 1904 in the Summer Olympics, right here in Rio for the 2016 Olympic Games. The 2009 decision from the International Olympic Commission (IOC) came much to the delight of golf fans around the world. [...]
Olympics Security and Long Term Favela Help
By Sam Green, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – According to the state Secretary for Sport and Leisure, Márcia Lins, who spoke to The Rio Times recently, Rio will be safe for visitors during the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. As concerns grow about the impact of the events on Rio’s poor communities, [...]
Favelas Moved for World Cup and Olympics
By Samuel Elliott Novacich, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Few people dispute the fact that the face of Rio de Janeiro is changing, though an increasing number of individuals are quick to argue that many of the changes currently affecting the city are not as Utopian as they seem. On the brink of [...]
Brazil Moving to Airport Privatization
By Sam Green, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian government has moved towards privatizing the country’s five largest airports in an effort to head off concerns that the nation’s transport infrastructure will not cope with the massive influx of visitors for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. With the planned [...]
Rio 2016 Olympics “on Target”
By Sam Green, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The organizing committee of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games insisted its plans were “absolutely on target” as it emerged that the International Olympic Committee and FIFA are jointly monitoring preparations for the Olympics and the football World Cup in Brazil two years earlier. Rio 2016 [...]
Ronaldinho Eyes Seleção for WC 2014
By Andrew Campbell, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Ronaldinho Gaúcho, former two-time FIFA player of the year, has settled on Brazil’s biggest club Flamengo, as his new home. In trading the black and red stripes of AC Milan for the red and black of Flamengo, Ronaldinho hopes to increase his chances of getting [...]
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