DannyelBrazil Posted August 5, 2014 Report Posted August 5, 2014 Sailing Test Event in Guanabara Bay - Aquece Rio event Quote
Tony E Loves Architecture Posted August 5, 2014 Report Posted August 5, 2014 That's excellent news Danny. I'm glad works are progressing. Danny, can You let me inbox You please? Thanks in advance. 1 Quote
Team USA Posted August 5, 2014 Report Posted August 5, 2014 2 years to go everybody I'm so excited! 1 Quote
DannyelBrazil Posted August 5, 2014 Report Posted August 5, 2014 2 years to go everybody I'm so excited! Me too!!! Quote
ofan Posted August 6, 2014 Report Posted August 6, 2014 When will they start work on the marathon/archery venue. Based on that photo it looks behind. Quote
DannyelBrazil Posted August 7, 2014 Report Posted August 7, 2014 When will they start work on the marathon/archery venue. Based on that photo it looks behind. Actually, the structure is ready (since 2011). The temporary archery stuff will be assembled by IF months before the games. And after Carnaval parade of 2016 Quote
DannyelBrazil Posted August 8, 2014 Report Posted August 8, 2014 (edited) The works are full steam in Olympic Park Works at Engenhão Olympic Stadium (abroad a.k.a. Joao Havelange Stadium) Edited August 8, 2014 by DannyelBrazil 1 Quote
DannyelBrazil Posted August 12, 2014 Report Posted August 12, 2014 Rio International Airport is finally private-operated by Changi/Odebrecht. The started today the operations by presenting their new logo and placing some new signage and starting paiting dirty walls. New logo of Galeão/Tom Jobim International Airport (Rio International as known abroad). New signage being installed today Some works already started, specially by fast refurbshment of elevators, escalators and moving walkways (maybe the most problematic stuff in Rio's Airport today) How Airport must look like in April 2016 with the new concourse in Terminal 2 Quote
DannyelBrazil Posted August 12, 2014 Report Posted August 12, 2014 I loved the new signage. So colorful and modern. Specially compared to the **** one Rio International had. Quote
DannyelBrazil Posted August 12, 2014 Report Posted August 12, 2014 About 1.5 km of tunnels to be carved in the rock to get main part of Rio new subway line done http://globotv.globo.com/rede-globo/bom-dia-rio/t/edicoes/v/falta-pouco-para-conclusao-das-escavacoes-da-linha-4-do-metro/3557727/ The works in Ipanema urban area will start back in late august. Quote
DannyelBrazil Posted August 14, 2014 Report Posted August 14, 2014 That airport logo is stunning. Enjoy the complete branding stuff (it got really nice): http://www.anacouto.com.br/portfolio/rio-galeao-aeroporto-internacional-tom-jobim Design made by Ana Couto Branding Studio from Rio Quote
gotosy Posted August 15, 2014 Report Posted August 15, 2014 Rio passes first Olympic test, water quality surprisesThu Aug 15 (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro passed its first 2016 Olympics test with the end of an international sailing regatta on Guanabara Bay, one of the most heavily criticized venues in a city under attack for disorganization and construction delays. During the week-long event many athletes and coaches were surprised to find the bay's notoriously dirty water - infamous for raw sewage, floating garbage, boat-battering debris and animal corpses - to be far cleaner than expected. "I noticed a big difference, there was a lot less rubbish in the water than there was a year ago," said Jo Aleh, helmswoman for the winning New Zealand team in the Women's 470 class at the end of that competition on Saturday. A long-time critic of the venue, Aleh said she preferred the pristine waters of her Pacific Island nation and still felt Guanabara Bay needed work. But she pointed out that many races are being held outside the bay in the open ocean where the water is "just fine." Nor, she and other sailors added, is Rio the only important world sailing venue with water-quality issues. Pollution-fed algae blooms threatened Olympic sailing at the Beijing Games in Quingdao in 2008 and were only resolved in the weeks before the event started. Concern Rio won't meet its cleanup goals has eased enough that Jorge Fundak, sports director for the Austrian sailing federation, is pushing organizers to hold more races in the bay and fewer in the cleaner open ocean. It is harder for TV to cover events outside the bay, he said. CONCERNS EXAGGERATED Eilidh McIntyre, part of the two-person team that took ninth place in the Women's 470 Class, said concerns about the water were understandable but exaggerated. "Most days the water was crystal clear," McIntyre said. "We saw dolphins. We did see a dead dog. But you can run into something like that almost anywhere." State officials responsible for water quality acknowledge the Guanabara Bay still has serious pollution problems, but say they are concentrated away from the sailing venue. News reports, they added, have unfairly confused two separate water-quality problems: human health hazards caused by sewage and racing-quality issues caused by debris. State water-quality numbers starting in 1980 and reviewed by Reuters show the Olympic sailing areas have, on average, been rated "Excellent" or "Satisfactory" since 2005. That means they are suitable for swimming and meet limits for concentrations of fecal coliforms, disease-causing bacteria found in human excrement. Alistair Fox, head of competitions for the International Sailing Federation (ISAF), said his organization supervised Rio's water-testing program and was satisfied that the water in the race courses is meeting local and international standards. Problems still surface after major rainstorms when sewage from illegal connections or shantytowns gets mixed with rainwater and flushed into the bay, said Jose Candido Muricy, a Rio government spokesman for Olympic and environmental issues. GOOD QUALITY One of the outfall points is in the yacht harbor, the Marina da Gloria, where the sailing events will be based. Tests showed the water quality to be good during the test regatta probably because it was held, just as the Olympics will be, during the low-rain Southern Hemisphere winter, he said. But Muricy promises to eliminate that threat. An interceptor sewer should be completed by September 2015 to channel sewage away from the Marina and the bay. Its construction was delayed by the collapse of Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista's EBX Group, which had promised to pay for half the project, he said. As for the debris, Rio has closed old landfills that sloughed garbage into local rivers and is completing a network of "eco-barriers" on major bay tributaries to trap garbage before it can pollute the bay. A fleet of garbage-collection boats also regularly works on the bay to scoop up stuff the barriers miss, he said. Reuters 1 Quote
DannyelBrazil Posted August 15, 2014 Report Posted August 15, 2014 ^^ (picture taken by Test Event organizers at http://www.aquecerio.com/fotos/regata-da-medalha-rsx-movimenta-aguas-da-baia-de-guanabara) TV will love sailing events with that backgrounds... Quote
DannyelBrazil Posted August 15, 2014 Report Posted August 15, 2014 More buses arriving for the BRT lines of Rio Here a video showing the bus coming from Southern Brazil to be delivered in Rio (more than 1,000km far away) Good to show also a bit of Brazilian Federal Highways and part of Florianopolis, the gorgeous capital of Santa Catarina state. Quote
baron-pierreIV Posted August 26, 2014 Report Posted August 26, 2014 Uh-oh. Better lock up all those medals and other valuables ASAP!! FIVB World Championship trophies stolen in Rio!! http://www.insidethegames.biz/sports/summer/volleyball/1022137-fivb-volleyball-world-championship-trophies-stolen-from-rio-car-park Quote
Athensfan Posted August 26, 2014 Report Posted August 26, 2014 Enjoy the complete branding stuff (it got really nice): http://www.anacouto.com.br/portfolio/rio-galeao-aeroporto-internacional-tom-jobim Design made by Ana Couto Branding Studio from Rio All of that is stunning. To be honest, I like it better that the Look of the Games. 1 Quote
DannyelBrazil Posted August 26, 2014 Report Posted August 26, 2014 All of that is stunning. To be honest, I like it better that the Look of the Games. (2) Quote
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