[celesti]

Originally Posted by zexstream

I honestly think these will be considered as bad as Atlanta and people will keep talking about how great London was compared to Rio.

What makes you think that?

[zexstream]

Originally Posted by celesti

What makes you think that?

When you see how the Brazillians have given athletics a smaller stadium than football, after watching their dreadful 8 min segment last night.

Also the people are very poor and I can't see them bothering with the lesser sports thus the atmosphere will be poor.

They are also spreading a lot of events all over the city into 4 zones which won't be accessible as London.

[ninjahandfriend]

I agree that Engenho de Dentro (nobody calls it Havelange even though it's the official name) is a little on the small side, however it's unfair to say that there is zero English spoken here, that the people are 'very poor' (we have the second highest GDP in Brazil as well as the most expensive real estate) or that spreading the events over 4 locations (given we're a small city) renders the games inaccessible.

[ninjahandfriend]

Originally Posted by deivu74

Sort of like Joo-ow (J = ge of garage) Av-er-lan-gee (gee as in capital G)

Ju-Aung (The J being very soft and the aung being pronounced through your nose) avil-Angie.