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Fire Damages Velodrome at Rio’s Olympic Park

By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Early Sunday morning, July 30th, just a few days short of the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Rio 2016 Games (August 5th), a raging fire consumed part of the cycling track and roof of one of the Games' main venues, the Velodrome in Rio's Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca.

It took Rio fire fighters several hours to fully extinguish the blaze which began around 12:30 AM.

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