Rio 2016 passes two-year countdown in buoyant mood

Rio 2016 on Monday celebrated the two-year countdown to the opening of its Olympic Games, with organisers vowing that the delays and cost overruns which blighted the lead-in to the country’s staging of the 2014 Fifa World Cup will not be repeated.

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