(ATR) Rio Olympic Park and Deodoro Sports Complex will serve as public parks in addition to housing sporting venues to prevent future white elephants after the Olympics.
As the one-year-to-go celebrations for the 2016 Olympics draw near, the city of Rio de Janeiro outlined their Olympic legacy plan to local media at a press conference in the Olympic Park in Barra de Tijuca.
Pedro Paulo, government coordinating secretary of Rio de Janeiro’s city hall, gave the presentation in place of Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes, who is on holiday, describing how each venue will be fitted after the games.
In the Olympic Park, 60 percent of the land will be open to athletes and the public, while the remaining 40 percent will be sold by Rio Mais, the consortium in charge of building the Olympic Park, to private developers who will build condominiums and other facilities on the land.
Both private and public money will be used to redevelop the Olympic Park, with the plan for who will develop the condominiums and money generated from the park will be used to be determined, municipal officials told Around the Rings.
The aquatics center, Rio Arena, the three Carioca Arenas, the tennis center and the velodrome will remain after the Games with modifications.
The structure surrounding the aquatics center will be removed, leaving two 50m pools for the public to use. Rio Arena will continue in its current use as a mutli-sport arena and concert venue, while parts of the tennis center will be removed leaving the outdoor courts. The velodrome will continue as a training center for cyclists.
Carioca Arena 3 will become an "Experimental Olympic School" to bring a multitude of sports to around 850 children from all over Rio de Janeiro. Carioca Arena 2 will be run by the Brazilian Olympic and Paralympic Committees after the Games as a gymnasium to train elite athletes. Carioca Arena 1 will remain a multi-sport and concert venue.
The Arena Futuro will be dismantled after the Games and be rebuilt into four schools around the city.
In addition to Olympic venues, a 400m track will be built in the park for public use, and the Olympic Way will become an outdoor exercise trail full of green space for citizens to use, leading to a live site in the park.
The Deodoro Complex will become a large outdoor park, which will serve close to 1.4 million residents in Rio and outside the city. It will feature trails, picnic areas, and centers dedicated to education about environmental protection.
The BMX course and the mountain bike trails will remain in use after the Games, and a skate park will be built to accompany them. The canoe slalom course will be turned into a river and a large pool that visitors can float down and enjoy.
For Rio de Janeiro, just over a year remains until the 2016 Games, with a majority of venues unfinished. IOC President Thomas Bach says there is "no time to lose," in the construction for the Games, who will celebrate one-year-to-go in seven days time.
Written by Aaron Bauer
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