WOA President Readies for Rio -- ATR Podcast

(ATR) The World Olympians Association looks ahead to the 2016 Rio Olympics.

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The Brazilian and the Olympic flags wave at a ceremony during which Rio de Janeiro state governor Sergio Cabral and Brazilian Olympic Committee president Carlos Arthur Nuzman (both unseen) showed the Olympic flag to children and residents of the Complexo do Alemao shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 15, 2012. A former drug traffickers enclave, the Complexo de Alemao shantytown was pacified and occupied by police and military forces in 2010 as part of a plan to improve Rio's overall security ahead of the Fifa WC Brazil 2014 and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.            AFP PHOTO/VANDERLEI ALMEIDA        (Photo credit should read VANDERLEIALMEIDA/AFP/GettyImages)
The Brazilian and the Olympic flags wave at a ceremony during which Rio de Janeiro state governor Sergio Cabral and Brazilian Olympic Committee president Carlos Arthur Nuzman (both unseen) showed the Olympic flag to children and residents of the Complexo do Alemao shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 15, 2012. A former drug traffickers enclave, the Complexo de Alemao shantytown was pacified and occupied by police and military forces in 2010 as part of a plan to improve Rio's overall security ahead of the Fifa WC Brazil 2014 and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. AFP PHOTO/VANDERLEI ALMEIDA (Photo credit should read VANDERLEIALMEIDA/AFP/GettyImages)

(ATR)The World Olympians Association is preparing for the Rio De Janeiro Olympics of 2016.

Joel Bouzou, president of the World Olympians Association, discusses the IOC's plans for a mourning site at Rio 2016, the organization's new partnership with EY andATR, and the WOA's work on the #TargetEbola campaign in this ATR Podcast recorded March 3.

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