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Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course Controversy

By Robbie Blakeley, Senior Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Rio mayor Eduardo Paes has caused a stir with controversial plans for the new 2016 Olympic golf course set to be built in Barra da Tijuca. Paes' ambitious plan would see part of an area of preservation swallowed up to make way for the eighteen-hole course.

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