Construction of Sports Halls at Barra Olympic Park begins

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After the Rio 2016™ Games, the venues will form part of Brazil’s first Olympic Training Centre, one of the event’s major sporting legacies

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 2 July, 2013: Construction of the three sports halls at the Rio 2016™ Games Barra Olympic Park started on Monday, 1 July, as scheduled. The venues, which are the first at the park to have the ground broken, will host basketball, taekwondo, Olympic and Paralympic judo, wrestling, wheelchair basketball, boccia, sitting volleyball, and wheelchair rugby.

Along with the Maria Lenk Aquatic Centre, the Velodrome and the Tennis Centre, the three halls after the Games will form part of the Olympic Training Centre (OTC), the first of its kind in Brazil. Aimed at elite athletes, the OTC will be one of the event’s major sporting legacies.

Construction works at the Barra Olympic Park started last July with the dismantling of the old race track’s structure and the clearing of the site. The first stage of building the Olympic Halls includes ground drilling and the application of concrete on foundation structures to support the facilities. The venues structure will start to be built before the end of the year.

A Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the City Government and the Rio Mais Consortium will fund construction of the halls, the Main Press Centre (MPC), the International Broadcast Centre (IBC), a hotel and the infrastructure at the Olympic Village (which is being built nearby also in the Barra zone), in addition to construction and maintenance of the park’s infrastructure for 15 years.

The City Government will seek to obtain the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for the construction of the halls as well as the other permanent venues at the park. This certification system was developed by the US Green Building Council organisation to verify environmental prerequisites on how buildings are designed, constructed and operated, and is aimed at reducing their environmental impact.

A photo of the construction is available in the press section of the Rio 2016™ official website: www.rio2016.com/en/news/press-room/press-room-archive

For further information:

Rio 2016™ Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games

www.rio2016.com

Media Relations

mediarelations@rio2016.com

Tel: (55 21) 2016 5320

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