Rio Brazil way behind for Olympics 2016

BRAZIL is already losing the race to live up to London’s Olympics, exclusive Sun pictures reveal.

With less than four years to go until the Games move to Rio in 2016, not a brick has been laid at venues
The tatty old racing track on the left is supposed to host 20 events — but it remains a grassy, overgrown wreck amid a wrangle over the EVICTIONS of 4,000 people living nearby.

Work on another venue at the site of an old army training ground has stalled after the discovery of live LANDMINES.

And developers and officials fear DEADLINES for completing work are getting so tight they face running out of time.

Now Rio must act like the wiggling, shimmying girls at its Carnival — and get moving.
Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff has vowed the Games will be “even better” than London’s.

But IOC member Nawal El Moutawakel warned: “There is a large volume of works that need to be started now.”

The Nelson Piquet Racetrack in the Barra district is supposed to have an aquatics centre, velodrome and facilities for other events. But there is no sign of any — nor of the athletes’ village next door.
At Deodoro, 15 miles away, work on a park for events
such as shooting, kayaking and BMX has been stopped while the area is swept for military explosives.

By contrast in East London in 2008, foundations had been laid for the showpiece stadium plus other buildings in the complex.

More than 230 other projects including new expressways are planned in Rio but only 65 are anywhere near on target.Rio organising chief Leonardo Gryrner insisted the work would get done — though he admitted: “Time is an adversary. We’ll get a few cold sweats.”