Vazou a notícia de que o Comitê Olímpico Internacional pode ter iniciado conversas com a cidade de Londres, para fazer lá a Olimpíada de 2016. Aparentemente o que está acontecendo no Rio de Janeiro está fazendo os cartolas do COI a repensar. Se for verdade, o Brasil será totalmente ridicularizado a nível mundial.
Veja o que foi publicado na Inglaterra:
Olympic officials have secretly asked if London would be in
a position to take over hosting the 2016 games from Rio de Janeiro.
The informal enquiry looked to determine if enough of the
venues used in the 2012 games could be brought back into use for the next
Olympics in two years time, the Evening Standard reports.
The revelation comes as an International Olympic Committee
vice president last month branded Brazil’s planning “the worst I have
experienced”.
John Coates, who has closely monitored progress from Rio,
told a press conference in Sydney that the city is “in many, many ways” further
behind Athens was two years before the 2004 games - the current benchmark for last minute
completions.
Calling the situation on the ground “critical”, Mr Coates
said the IOC has been forced to make an “unprecedented” intervention by forming
a special task force to try to speed up preparations.
He added however that “there is no plan B” as the games
could not be moved to a different city at such a late stage.
Since then, it seems that the IOC may well have changed its
mind and started searching for a backup plan which could involve London.
A source told the Standard: “At a comparable planning stage
in 2004 Athens had done 40 per cent of preparations on infrastructure, stadiums
and so on. London had done 60 per cent. Brazil has done 10 per cent - and they
have just two years left. So the IOC is thinking, ‘What’s our plan B?’
“Obviously, the answer would be to come back to London. It’s
very unlikely but it would be the logical thing to do.”
Director of event consultants Allium, Will Glendinning, who
worked on the London Organising Committee for the 2012 games said that there
was “more than enough time” for London to prepare.
“Yes of course it can be done,” he said. “One of the UK’s greatest exports is
our major events capability. The expertise exists and regarding facilities we
are a couple of years away.”
But a spokeswoman for the IOC said the possibility of Rio
2016 being moved to London was a “non-starter and unfeasible”.
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