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^^Saw it on the video.

As shown in the masterplan, a six-lane highway is to be built between the Barra and Deodoro clusters before the Summer Olympics.

Only in RdJ can you have two monolithic hotels with their room count in the 500s range looming ober a popular beach where all of the buildings bordering it are almost the same height. Anyway, I am glad that the old Le Meridien reopened. We do not want vacant hotels hindering the 2016 Olympics.

In january 2011, the Windsor Atlantica Hotel opened inside the former Le Meridien Copacabana, adding 545 rooms to Rio's hotel inventory.

In the Port area, there are going to be a couple of museums, an aquarium, and a redeveloped boulevard.

I didn't say when. I said how. What is the port area going to have after its redevelopment?

And how is RdJ's port area going to be redeveloped before the Olympics?

Theduplication of Avenida Niemeyer is going to be a difficult job. Currently, it is a two-lane road cutting through some difficult terrain. It can be very difficult to widen. Also, which highway in the Port District will be replaced by an underground tunnel?

This is how the Sambodromo will look after the new stands are built on the west side, replacing the three story structure.

I have slipped up on the Triathlon venue. It should have been Triathlon: new venue

Ceremonies: Toronto National Stadium - 80,000 Archery: new venue Diving: new venue Swimming: new venue Synchronised Swimming: new venue Water Polo: new venue Athletics: Toronto National Stadium - 80,000 Badminton: National Trade Centre Basketball: Toronto Centre - 19,800 Boxing: CNE Coliseum Canoe/Kayak Sprint: Toronto Regatta Centre Canoe/Kayak Slalom: Twelve-Mile Creek, St. Catherines BMX: new venue Mountain Biking: Hardwood Hills Road Cycling: Downtown Toronto Track Cycling: new velodrome at National Trade Centre Equestrian: North Caledon Equestrian Centre Fencing: Metro Toronto Convention Centre Field Hockey: new venue Football: Toronto National Stadium - 80,000, National Soccer Stadium - 21,000, Hamilton Stadium - 40,000, Ottawa Stadium - 35,000, fourth venue to be determined Golf: undetermined venue Artistic Gymnastics: SkyDome - 60,000 Rhythmic Gymnastics: SkyDome - 60,000 Trampolining: SkyDome - 60,000 Handball: National Trade Centre Judo: Metro Toronto Convention Centre Modern Pentathlon: National Soccer Stadium, National Trade Centre Rowing: Toronto Regatta Centre Rugby 7s: National Soccer Stadium - 20,000 Sailing: Olympic Sailing Marina Shooting: new venue Table Tennis: National Trade Centre Taekwondo: National Trade Centre Tennis: National Tennis Stadium - 12,500 Triathlon: Atakoy Marina Beach Volleyball: new venue Indoor Volleyball: National Trade Centre Weightlifting: Molson Amphitheatre - 16,000 Wrestling: National Trade Centre

^^Usain Bolt might as well return in Glasgow in 2014.

The primary reason that Dubai has pulled out of the 2013 World Aquatics Championships is that Dubai does not have an existing aquatic facility that is adequate or even a proposed facility. Might as well award the 2013 World Aquatics Championships to Moscow (one of the bid cities). Shouldn't have awarded the Championships to Dubai, I don't know why they even won in the first place.

I thought about this: What if Toronto considered binning for the 2030 Pan American Games instead of Hamilton? Toronto is hosting the 2015 Pan American Games, what if Toronto hosted a Commonwealth Games? By 2030, Ivor Wynne Stadium will have been replaced by a new stadium and be dead for a number of years. By 2015, they'll have enough venues for the CWG's (which may be an economy-sized version of the Summer Olympics and it's just for nations of the Commonwealth).

The site where the Olympic Stadium and rowing course that were proposed as part of Toronto's 2008 bid may be encroached by several new condominium towers and that may interfere with any future Olympic bid.