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Brazil Blackout Sparks Concerns About Infrastructure
AP| World
… system at a time when Latin America's largest economy is booming and the country is preparing to host the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics . The Brazilian Olympic Committee would not comment on the power failure. But among guarantees made to the International …
Story|11/12/2009
Brazil Blackouts Prompt Olympic Concerns
AP| World
… The city saw a series of robberies around the Maracana football stadium — where the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Olympics will be held, along with the 2014 World Cup final. A police spokesman said a band of roughly a dozen criminals worked the …
Story|11/11/2009
Massive Blackout Hits Brazil's 2 Largest Cities
AP| World
… 35, a graphic designer. But he worried about how the outage might look for a city that last month was picked to host the 2016 Olympics and will be the showcase city for soccer's World Cup in 2012. "The image of Brazil, of Rio, is bad enough with all …
Story|11/10/2009
Toronto awarded 2015 Pan American Games
| AP| Sports
… 2007 Pan American Games were held in Rio de Janeiro, which used that success as a springboard to its winning bid for the 2016 Olympics last month. The 2011 games are to be held in Guadalajara, which has faced major delays in organizing the event. In its …
Story|11/06/2009
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Story|10/24/2009
Rio Slum Dwellers Flee, Fearing More Drug Gang Battles
AP| World
… by midday. The clashes began last weekend when a drug gang tried to invade a rival's territory. Three police have died in a helicopter that was shot down by gunfire. The fighting comes just two weeks after Rio won the 2016 Olympics .
Story|10/21/2009
| FOXNews.com| War Stories
… and the so-called mainstream media, preoccupied with hoopla over "health care reform," meaningless drivel about the 2016 Olympics and the vacuous award of a Nobel Peace Prize, have barely noticed the water flooding into our ship of state. Unfortunately …
Story|10/19/2009
Brazil Promises Olympic Security After Latest Rio Violence
AP| World
… officials are insisting security won't be a problem for the 2016 Olympics despite drug-gang violence that plunged Rio de Janeiro ..... about five miles southwest of one of the zones where Rio's 2016 Olympics will be held. It was on Oct. 2 that the city was chosen …
Story|10/18/2009
NFL owners look at Rush and see next Marge Schott
Sports
… harder. Since Limbaugh mocked Chicago's bid committee when it got knocked out in the first round of balloting for the 2016 Olympics , what does it say that his own attempt to buy into the NFL's boys club likely won't even come to a vote? Only this …
Story|10/14/2009
New mom Sorenstam loving life away from tour
| AP| Sports
… And she's never far from the game of golf. Sorenstam was involved in the sport's successful bid to be added to the 2016 Olympics . "I think it's wonderful for the game of golf, maybe not in the countries where I played, in the U.S. and Sweden …
Story|10/12/2009
