The organizers developed a fairly extensive transit system to deal with the problem of moving 20,000 athletes, staff, and media from site to site, although some of the plans in the original Olympic bid were scaled back in the intervening years due to the ever-present construction delays and cost overruns. And, with Rio’s streets being as clogged as they are, this means patience is required. So, in order to get from one zone to any other, you have to travel around the park/mountains as opposed to moving in a straight line. In the middle of that rough triangle is Tijuca National Park, an honest-to-goodness rainforest, and such scenic points as the Pedra da Gavea (my rough translation is Large Rocky Mountain) and the Cristo Redentor (Big Ol’ Jesus Statue). To accommodate an event of the scale of the Olympics, organizers built three main clusters: one in the southeast of the city, on the iconic waterfront, one about 25 kilometres west in Barra da Tijuca, and one about 25 kilometres to the north of that, in Deodoro. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Houses and streets are jumbled around the base of every steep slope, and other than the odd park the only green spaces are those where construction would obviously have been impossible. But here, it’s like they built a city and then the mountains shot up through the ground. Lots of big urban centres have mountains close by, but they tend to be a good drive away, and they provide a nice backdrop for the views from the city core. You have to see the way the city has been developed to appreciate just how much the mountains make things tricky. Scott Stinson: The absence of stars like LeBron James or Adam Scott actually make Olympics better.Opening ceremony at Rio 2016 ‘is going to be cool,’ promises Oscar nominated director who planned it.The question is: will these be known as the Traffic Olympics? Recommended from Editorial The experience so far suggests it might remain so for the next two weeks. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receiptīut there is one pre-Games concern that remains front-of-mind, and it is precisely because it is the one thing the organizing committee could never completely overcome: Rio de Janeiro is city that surrounds a series of mountains, which means getting from A to B was always going to be a challenge.
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