(ATR)The Globe and Mail comments on reasons behind the current civil unrest in Brazil.
Brazilian protesters have mainly targeted next year’s World Cup as a "prime example" of the government’s "wasteful spending."
Protests aimed at sporting events will likely not subside following the World Cup, according to the report, as the country then prepares to host the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
In a separate editorial, The Globe and Mail suggests recent protests throughout Brazil show that its winning bids for both the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics "have strained the country’s ability to match the growing expectations of its population." Despite an impending and "massive investment in sports infrastructure," government investment in entities such as "roads, policing, and governance" remain "inadequate or non-existent." The World Cup and Summer Olympics will go on as planned, but the "challenge to create public infrastructure will remain". The Globe and Mail also reports on expectations surrounding an appearance by NHL players at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Nothing is official yet, "as the deal between the league, union, IOC and the International Ice Hockey Federation is now in the hands of the lawyers". A formal agreement may be produced within two weeks. NBC Sports commemorates Title IX turning 41 by highlighting 11 "female Olympians who made an impact in their sport". Athletes featured in the NBC Sports article include Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith Joyner, Bonnie Blair, Venus and Serena Williams, Lisa Leslie, Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor, Shannon Miller, Mia Hamm and IOC member Angela Ruggiero. This is Beijing! reports on "Nature and Man in Rhapsody of Light," a unique project underway at Beijing’s iconic Water Cube. The building used to host aquatics events during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games "will be illuminated by a LED light display that changes daily with the help of computer analysis of both the I Ching [and] posts from Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter". "The computer program will pick icons representing different emotions expressed on Weibo. The amount varies from at least 18 million to hundreds of millions a day," said Jennifer Wen Ma, chief designer of the art project. "The color, brightness and rhythm of the lights will change according to analyses of the posts, as well as contemporary color theory and psychology."Written by Nicole Bennett.
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