Delay in works concerned organization of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro

Olympic Velodrome: work should have been delivered last year, but is 85% completion and has cost $ 143 million.

Rio - The 100 days of the start of the Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro still has much work to deliver everything promised.

Line 4 subway is not ready, the velodrome has delayed the work schedule and Engenhão passes without term reforms to be delivered. Even considered facilities ready are unfinished.

An example is the Olympic Aquatic Stadium, opened hastily at the beginning of the month to host the Maria Lenk Trophy.

The competition, one of the most important national calendar, was closed to the public and held in the midst of works in the arena, which limited even the use of toilets. Nevertheless, the City Hall announced that the work is with implementation rate of "100%".

The Engenhão is one of the structures that already existed even before the Rio being chosen to host the Olympics in 2009. But the stadium built for the 2007 Pan and which will host the athletics competitions and part of football dispute involves intense reform .

The cost of R $ 52 million, 15,000 temporary seats are being installed behind the goals.

The athletics track will be replaced. From May 16, the site will receive the Athletics Ibero-American Championships, which will serve as a test event, and probably the competition will be held in conditions similar to those recorded in the Maria Lenk Trophy.

The situation of the velodrome at the Olympic Park Bar, is the most concerned. The project, whose cost reached R $ 143 million in January this year after additive of R $ 24.8 million, is 85% completion.

The original timetable envisaged opening just last year. The test event scheduled for later this month was canceled.

Among the works "non-Olympic" but necessary mainly to the operation of the Games during the mobility plan, the completion of the Olympic subway stretch is that requires more attention.

The state government has repeated that the work will be delivered in July - no stipulated date - but the tight deadline is cause for concern because any unforeseen cause the subway does not circulate before the Olympics, on August 5.


In addition, the fall of a bike lane stretch of the Niemeyer Avenue last week, which killed two people, raised doubts in the international community about the quality of works.