July 6 - Construction work on Rio 2016's 1.18 million square metre Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca commenced ... of the Brazilian Grand Prix circuit Jacarepagaua, also known as Nelson Piquet ...

The inaugural Sydney 500 attracted 184,856 over three days - a figure that delighted V8 Supercars boss Tony Cochrane, who lobbied for years to get a street circuit at Olympic Park to help his ...

Text description provided by the architects. The Deodoro Olympic Park has an area of 2 million square meters, being the largest of the Olympic areas with the second largest capacity, as it ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Residents of a squatter settlement in Brazil marked for demolition to make way for the Olympic Park protested ... marked by the largest street protests in decades ...

When he toured the Olympic Park in December, Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes beat back against ... as workers drilled new tunnels through a posh residential street of the Ipanema neighborhood, two large ...

The modest 860-square-foot home sits on a narrow street ... Deodoro Olympic Park, long hailed by Brazilian politicians and Olympic proponents as a path to upgrade one of Rio's poorer neighborhoods ...

Maps showing race by household in beachfront neighborhoods of Rio might not display the sharp dividing lines found in St ... host Olympic events have been converted into a new public park ...

The Street Skateboarding Rome Pro Tour event, held in June and July in Italy, has been the only Paris 2024 qualifying event so far for skateboarding. Olympic ... The Rio World Skate Park World ...

AECOM has just been announced as the winning firm for the international competition held for the master plan design of Rio 2016 Olympic Park ... Washington University (St. Louis, MO), with ...

Aerial view of the construction site of the Olympic and Paralympic Village at Barra da Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 3, 2013. Barra da Tijuca hosts the Olympic park and village ...

Speaking with The Daily Telegraph, several drivers confirmed the Olympic Park street circuit could see more carnage than even in 2010, when heavy rain meant only 15 of 29 drivers finished.