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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (Reuters) — A new pier at Rio de Janeiro’s international airport will open fully just a month before the start of the Olympic Games, authorities said on Thursday (March 10), after a series of setbacks. The new Southern pier at the Tom Jobim airport, otherwise known as Galeao, was initially set to be completed by April, authorities responsible for the developments said in November. The 2-billion-real (500-million-U.S.-dollar) project to expand the […]
AUGUST 13 (Reuters) — Rio de Janeiro can be “proud” of the four Olympic test events held so far in the city, the head of the Rio 2016 coordinating committee said on Wednesday (August 12), as officials once again played down concerns over athletes’ safety in the city’s polluted waterways. Recent tests commissioned by the Associated Press found levels of disease-causing viruses as much as 1.7 million times the level that would be considered hazardous […]
