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Rob. Since Cape Town is hosting 8 matches, jimmy says we can host Olympic Games with the same infrastructure.

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Ah no that is not what I said or even mean . Remember that you have other cities involved to host the Olympic Soccer tournament and a standard regulated by Fifa. You have to have good Interstate Transportation for 6 cities as opposed to 10 or 12 cities in the case of the World Cup. An Olympic Host city will have many of the same challenges as the world cup requiring an Rail System of Some type from Airport to Main Stadium and probably Hotel Areas if not also the Athletes Village.

With the Olympics for your host city you are going to have more requirements simply because the amount of destinations as in Venues. In Rio's case they indeed don't have Urban Train Transportation to their main airport and they will need it first for the WC 2014. Staging the Olympics They will need inter city train transport for the olympics as well for the Soccer Tournament. They will need that as well for the Olympics.

Cape Town Or Rio hosting the World cup I this day and age would knock a big chunk of what is needed in regards to transportation from the Olympic Bill. 3.5 million Tickets for the World Cup Hosting is certainly very comparable to the Summer Olympics. The Big Difference of course is the geographic spread and the Density of the Venues . A multi million dollar upgrade of an Airport would probably be needed in a World Cup host city in lets say Durban but it does not contribute much to Capacity if Cape Town Hosts the Olympics.

Hey of course CapeTown Can't Host Green point is a Dedicated Soccer Stadium Now and no matter how you cut it Mo you can't put a Scaffolding track in without knockin out the end Sectionsand going outside the roof perimeter LOL.

Jim jones

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Is that really true? Rio will host a few matches in 2014. That doesn't require quite the same infrustrcure as an event which will take over every venue, big and small, in a city for two to three weeks day after day.

Don't argue with Jimmy.

Wish his replies being quoted could be blocked out too. This ignore button is amazing.

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  • Can Brazil afford to stage these two mega events 2 years apart? (the answer is not obvious: Rio would benefit from some of the WC 2014 investments but would still need a significant amount of public investment for Games related infrastructures)
  • Can Brazil find enough domestic sponsors to fund both WC 2014 and Rio 2016?

1 - Again and over again:

Money for those kind of events is not a major problem in Brazil. The Brazilian Govt. has enough money to organizing both events without problems and Brazil has a huge market (197 million people) with big companies. Just for comparision: The more profittable market for GM, Coca-Cola and Volkswagen in last years was Brazil.

Just repeating here: PanAm Games costs were above US$ 1,6 billion and it was full-paied two months after the games.

2 - Last PanAm Games was almost full sponsored by Brazilian companies. If you watching some soccer match or any event that a Brazilian major athlete plays, you can see always some Brazilian company sponsoring the event.

Now-a-days, Petrobras, Vale, Embraer ranks in top-20 biggest companies in the world. Petrobras is huge sport sponsor in whole Latin America (not only in Brazil). TAM Airlines (the biggest one in southern hemisphere) is also a huge sport-event sponsor just like Ambev (the Brazilian brewer that now owns Anheuser-Busch, you know: Budweiser is maybe the biggest sports sponsor in the US)...

I don't think this is a issue for Rio.

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