RIO 2016: CITY HALL PRESENTS LEGACY PLAN FOR THE OLYMPIC PARK AND THE X-PARK Education, social projects and high-performance sports will share the use of the greatest stage of the Olympic Games. At Deodoro, the audience will have access to the second biggest leisure area in the city Download presentation in Portuguese: Download videos: Deodoro h264 - Deodoro mpeg - Olympic Park h264 - Olympic Park mpeg - Rio de Janeiro, July 29, 2015 – The first one will become a large sports and educational complex in the Barra da Tijuca and Jacarepaguá area for public school students and high-performance athletes, sharing the space for social projects and events. The other, in Deodoro, will be an open to the population, which will serve about 1.5 million people from 10 neighborhoods and three neighboring municipalities in a region with a high concentration of youngsters lacking recreational areas. Rio de Janeiro City Hall announces today how the Olympic Park, the heart of the Rio 2016 Games, and the Deodoro X-Park will be used after the biggest sporting event on the planet, enabling educational background with emphasis on sports, access to the population for leisure purposes and legacy for high-performance athletes. The projects embody the commitment of the City Hall to generate a significant social and sporting legacy from the Games and prevent 'white elephants'. One of the highlights is the transformation of the Carioca Arena 3 - which will host taekwondo, fencing and Paralympic judo - into an Olympic Experimental School (GEO, its acronym in Portuguese) for 850 students, sharing full-time elementary education with 10 sports disciplines. The goal is to follow suit - adapting the project to our reality - of host cities that created an important legacy, benefiting its population, such as Munich (1972), Barcelona (1992), Sydney (2000) and London ( 2012). Thus will be possible to turn into reality the motto of the mayor of
RIO 2016: CITY HALL PRESENTS LEGACY PLAN FOR THE OLYMPIC PARK AND THE X-PARK Education, social projects and high-performance sports will share the use of the greatest stage of the Olympic Games. At Deodoro, the audience will have access to the second biggest leisure area in the city Download presentation in Portuguese: Download videos: Deodoro h264 - Deodoro mpeg - Olympic Park h264 - Olympic Park mpeg - Rio de Janeiro, July 29, 2015 – The first one will become a large sports and educational complex in the Barra da Tijuca and Jacarepaguá area for public school students and high-performance athletes, sharing the space for social projects and events. The other, in Deodoro, will be an open to the population, which will serve about 1.5 million people from 10 neighborhoods and three neighboring municipalities in a region with a high concentration of youngsters lacking recreational areas. Rio de Janeiro City Hall announces today how the Olympic Park, the heart of the Rio 2016 Games, and the Deodoro X-Park will be used after the biggest sporting event on the planet, enabling educational background with emphasis on sports, access to the population for leisure purposes and legacy for high-performance athletes. The projects embody the commitment of the City Hall to generate a significant social and sporting legacy from the Games and prevent 'white elephants'. One of the highlights is the transformation of the Carioca Arena 3 - which will host taekwondo, fencing and Paralympic judo - into an Olympic Experimental School (GEO, its acronym in Portuguese) for 850 students, sharing full-time elementary education with 10 sports disciplines. The goal is to follow suit - adapting the project to our reality - of host cities that created an important legacy, benefiting its population, such as Munich (1972), Barcelona (1992), Sydney (2000) and London ( 2012). Thus will be possible to turn into reality the motto of the mayor of
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