Brazil

Temporary power supplier Aggreko has withdrawn from a tender to provide generators for the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to the Reuters news agency.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has formed a working group to address potential cost cuts for the 2016 Olympic Games, as organisers in Rio de Janeiro make their final preparations amid an uncertain financial and political climate.

The cost-cutting measures being implemented by organisers of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will not have a detrimental effect on the overall spectacle of the multi-sport showpiece, according to a Games spokesman.

A new round of independent testing on waterways in Rio de Janeiro that will stage events during the city’s hosting of the Olympic Games next summer have found locations further away from shore are just as polluted as nearer those nearer to land, where raw sewage flows into waterways.

Ty Votaw, vice-president of the International Golf Federation (IGF), has said Rio de Janeiro’s new golf course must adhere to an agronomy scheme if it is to effectively deliver the sport’s return to the Olympic Games next summer.

Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) president Marco Polo Del Nero has stepped down from his position on Fifa’s Executive Committee, the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) confirmed yesterday (Thursday).

President Dilma Rousseff has confirmed that foreigners visiting Brazil for next summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will not require a visa, while a government watchdog has raised doubts over the country’s security plans ahead of the showpiece events.

Rio de Janeiro’s new golf course developed for the return of the sport to the Olympic Games next year has been completed following a troubled development cycle.

The International Fencing Federation (FIE) has announced that the Chinese city of Wuxi will host the 2018 edition of its Senior World Championships.

Former Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) president Jose Maria Marin, who led the organising committee for his country’s staging of the 2014 Fifa World Cup, yesterday (Tuesday) pleaded not guilty to bribery charges in a US court as part of the corruption case that has hit world football’s governing body.

The World Rowing Federation (FISA) has handed organisers of the 2016 Olympic Games a boost by issuing a favourable report on the water quality at its venue for next year’s event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Brazilian authorities and the European Union (EU) have agreed a deal that is set to remove the threat of equestrian events being moved outside the country for the 2016 Olympic Games, according to Olympic Public Authority (APO) president Marcelo Pedroso.

The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has maintained its faith in the under-fire Guanabara Bay venue by releasing the provisional racing schedule for competition at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Organisers of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil have warned officials in the country’s capital of Brasília that if they do not sign a contract by the middle of November to host football events during next year’s sporting spectacle, the city will be stripped of its seven scheduled matches.

Organisers of the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro have ruled out conducting viral tests of waters at aquatic sports venues in the Brazilian city following advice from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Luiz Roberto Giugni, president of the Brazilian Confederation of Equestrian, has warned that ongoing delays in preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro could lead to equestrian events during the sporting spectacle being staged outside of the country.