The president of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) Thomas Bach said today that despite last minute challenges that can appear in only five days of the opening ceremony, Rio de Janeiro it is ready to organize a "big" Olympics .
The leader said that preparations under control, the two-day meeting scheduled to assess the organization of the Games by the IOC Executive Board concluded in four hours with all the doubts cleared.
"We expect that we will have a great Games, but as always we will have challenges last minute. But Brazilians and showed us that are able to solve these challenges even in the short term," Bach said in his first appearance before the media in the Press center of the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro.
"We are sure we will have some big Brazilian Olympic Games," he added the German exdeportista to the hundreds of journalists from many countries already installed in Rio to cover the competition.
When asked if the Brazilian style Olympics citing referred to a problem, as works last minute IOC president said that "the Olympic Brazilian Games are the Games full of passion and joie de vivre".
Bach admitted that after the news he received about the status of the Olympic Village, which many delegations presented complaints of electrical and hydraulic problems, the first thing he did when he landed in Rio de Janeiro this week was to go directly from the airport to the facility.
"But when I arrived and talked to the athletes and heads of delegations I saw that everyone had a positive view of the Olympic Village. They admitted that if the day before had problems with water leaks, and everything was resolved. The consensus is that the Villa is beautiful, fantastic with spectacular facilities and has everything they need, "he said.
He added that this perception may spread to other Olympic facilities and pavilions, including criticized Guanabara Bay, home of the sailing and polluted its waters came to be seen as a threat to the health of athletes.
"Right now we are making four day tests show that the water in the bay is in accordance with the conditions imposed by the World Health Organization , " he said.
He said also that the main subject of the meeting of the Executive Committee on Saturday was precisely the situation in Rio de Janeiro, along with others such as doping of Russian athletes, but all doubts were clarified.
"As you can see by the fact that a meeting was scheduled for two days to conclude at noon, everything was very efficient. The main issue was the delivery of the Games in Rio. We received a report from the Organizing Committee and all members could you ask questions, "he said.
He said that in addition to the Olympic venues, also could see that the so-called "Olympic legacy" as the new subway line, the revitalization of the port of Rio and new exclusive bus highways are completed and running.
"That's all very well summarized in a study commissioned an independent foundation that concludes that, thanks to the Olympics, Rio enjoyed higher growth and more equitable than any other city in Brazil over the last seven years, since he was chosen Olympic venue , "he said.
Isolated incidents recorded in recent days in some regions of Rio de Janeiro even with the heavy military presence security, said the IOC receives regular reports from them but has full confidence in the assurances given by the Brazilian authorities.
He admitted that the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee has "cash challenges" for lack of resources to finance all expenses, but I hope that at the end of the Games everything is balanced, even with financial support from the IOC itself.
"We were informed by the Organizing Committee that they are still working to have a balanced budget. That does not rule out having some cash flow problems that can be solved before the end of the accounting book," he said.
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