After 8 years of preparation Rio de Janeiro is ready for the Olympics. I have visited all the venues during the past week and I can say that they are all ready for the begining of the games.

Below there are 2 pictures showing the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas venue.

Most of the games will be held at the Barra Arena in Rio de Janeiro as you can see below. And the Carioca Arena is the biggest one.

50.000 volunteers will be helping during the games. 20% of them come from oversears – from 150 different countries.

Let’s hope that the olympics in Rio de Janeiro turns out to be a great success!

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December has just started. Now we have a bit less than 9 months for the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Preparation for the games are in full swing at Barra da Tijuca and Deodoro. Some people, including myself, are surprised with the progress taking place at the constructions sites of these Olympic venues.

What has been done in Rio so far:

– 3 Carioca Arenas: 95% complete

– The Future Arena: 100% complete

– The Olympic Aquatics Stadium: 96% complete

– The International Broadcast Center: 100% complete

The Carioca Arena you see above will host 10 sports during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next year.

Coming to watch the games in Rio? Need to know more about visas to Brazil? See this post about visas during the games in Rio.

Would you like to know more about the games in Rio? Here it is the official Rio 2016 website.

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It´s been held in Rio a forum to discuss the benefits of the games to the city. Tradesmen and businesses men who work in the tourism industry are getting together to ensure that the tourism in Rio will remain strong after the games.

Previous Olympic Cities.

Other Olympic cities representatives are taking part in the event to share their experiences during and after the Olympics.

Unique opportunity.

It is a life time opportunity to sell the city during the games and the authorities have to ensure that this mega event will consolidate Rio de Janeiro as a great destination for the tourists.

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We are only 500 days from the beggining of the olympics in Rio de Janeiro. It seemed like yesterday when the International Comitee selected Rio to be the next host of the games. Since then progress in the construction areas was made but we have problems in certain areas that need to be addressed.

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