Olympic Park Rio de Janeiro
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The Rio de Janeiro Olympic Park is located in the southwestern district of Barra da Tijuca and formed the core of the competition venues for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. The Olympic village and the Riocentro with competition venues for other sports are nearby .
history
The site was built for the 2007 Pan-American Games to host competitions in the sports facilities there.
In 2009 the city successfully applied to host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games . A motorsport racetrack was demolished to make room for expansions on the site. Since the modernization of the Barra Velodrome should cost as much as a new building, the decision was made to build a new cycling track. A year before the Games, the construction of the sports facilities was well advanced. Only the new Velódromo was still a shell, which is why the construction company issued reminders. There were significant additional costs and delays in the construction planning. For example, the Centro Olímpico de Tênis cost 7 million euros more than assumed. After construction workers went on strike at the beginning of April because of poor wages, work was suspended for two weeks. The IOC Vice President John Coates spoke a few weeks later of the worst preparation for the Olympics.
Other new venues for the Olympic Games were the three Carioca arenas, the Centro Olímpico de Tênis , the Estádio Aquático Olímpico , which was built on the site of the former Barra Velodrom, and the temporary Arena do Futuro .
After the Olympic Games, concerts were held in the Olympic Park and the sports facilities became the training center for some Olympic sports. Other sports facilities in the park, on the other hand, were hardly used after the games and have fallen into disrepair.
In October 2019, the Rock in Rio music festival with around 700,000 people took place in the Olympic Park .
In January 2020, a court ordered the temporary closure of all sports facilities in the Olympic Park due to a lack of security documents.
Sports facilities
Olympic Games 2016
| Sports facility | sport | capacity |
|---|---|---|
| Arena Carioca 1 | basketball | 16,000 |
| Arena Carioca 2 | Judo , wrestling | 10,000 |
| Arena Carioca 3 | Fencing , Taekwondo | 10,000 |
| Arena do Futuro | Handball | 12,000 |
| Centro Olímpico de Tênis | tennis | 10,000 (Center Court) |
| Estádio Aquático Olímpico | Swimming , water polo | 15,000 |
| Parque Aquático Maria Lenk | Synchronized swimming , water polo , water jumping | 5,000 |
| Rio Olympic Arena | do gymnastics | 12,000 |
| Velódromo Olímpico | Track cycling | 5,000 |
Former sports facilities
| Sports facility | sport | capacity |
|---|---|---|
| Barra Velodrome | Track cycling | 5,000 |
Picture gallery
Panoramic view
Olympic Park at the Carioca Arenas
Aerial view of the Carioca arenas
Arena Carioca 1
Arena Carioca 2
Arena Carioca 3
Arena do Futuro
Tennis center
Estádio Aquático Olímpico
Centro Aquático Maria Lenk
Rio Olympic Arena
Velódromo Olímpico
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Web links
- Carioca Arena 1 on Rio2016.com
- Carioca Arena 2 on Rio2016.com
- Carioca Arena 3 on Rio2016.com
- Olympic Tennis Center on Rio2016.com
- Olympic Aquatics Stadium on Rio2016.com
- Future Arena on Rio2016.com
- rio2016.org
- Conheça o Velódromo do Rio de Janeiro on fecierj.org.br
- Rio Olympic Velodrome on rio2016.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Strike on Rio's Olympic construction site ended. April 18, 2014, accessed June 8, 2020 .
- ↑ IOC Vice: "Rio preparation is the worst". April 29, 2014, accessed June 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Rio's Olympic Aquatic Center left in ruins after grand promises. February 8, 2017, accessed June 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Court locks Olympic sites in Rio. In: Focus Online . January 18, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Ivo Marusczyk: Federal Court includes all Olympic sites. In: Deutschlandfunk . January 16, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .
Competition venues for the 2016 Summer Olympics
