The measure of all things in an Olympic village can be the size of the sinks. In Rio, those mounted in the rooms of the athletes seem – they are so small – stoups of country churches. It’s just a detail that is all.
The village is located in the area Barra de Tijuca, has cost 835 million dollars, with an extra cost of 100 million because of the latest supplies and, in the light of true, the sentence in mid-June the IOC president Thomas Bach “is one of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen,” seems at least out of place. Then, the youth who form very soul, even if the blue epeeist Rossella Fiamingo emphasizes that “he expected more joy, more vitality.”
The D41 bus, which departs from the major hub of transportation in the heart of the Olympic park, leading to the village. It is overloaded, journalists, cameramen, objectives and newfangled technology of all kinds. Diego, a journalist of the Colombian Caracol TV Televison, looks out the window sadly: “All South America is so …” and indicates slums, rubble, an unfinished pedestrian overpass and still bandaged rusty scaffolding near the Olympic Park. There, he begins the degradation and the contrast between the slogan of the Games’ Un mundo novo “and poverty is evident, do not serve the protests to understand what he hears a certain band of Brazilians.
They are 31 buildings of village, gathered around the square of the complex, all supervised – though less conspicuously – by nacional Force. Seventeen floors per building, a total of 3,604 apartments for more than 200 thousand square meters destined to accommodate 17 thousand people today and in the future to become a wealthy residential area, hoping that at least the little green planted regga and become prosperous. It is a village of 60 thousand meals a day and 450 thousand condoms in three weeks. Italy’s palace, where came the flagship Federica Pellegrini, is the number 20, shared with the team of Montenegro and some Romanian athletes, 19 are accommodated the Americans, but, for security reasons, their building is bare, for the stars and stripes is no time. Other countries exhibiting banners and pride. And the boys, having completed his training and rest times, the village found everything: hair salon, bank, post office, canteen (as big as three football fields), seven swimming pools, soccer fields and tennis courts, recreation areas with table tennis , sofas, video game area, the “lugar de luto” where commemorate the victims linked to the five circles and a multi-religious center.
The Italians, then, have their don: Monsignor Mario Lusek is in its third summer Olympics and last Sunday reminded that wealth comes from sharing, “Ye athletes – he said – you have people next door, listen to them , are the strength that accompanies you, sharing a piece of road will be of help. ” For now life in the village is soporific because maybe has not reached a full house and who is spending time in the square, many selfies, walking, a bit ‘boring, but also many workouts.
Here who return from the training day the girls cycling road and go up in the room with bikes. Then, come the boys shooting team archery gold in London 2012. For the placid Marco Galiazzo “the buildings are nice,” while his colleague Mauro Nespoli stresses that “because we expected the disaster, all in all not bad ». It is not so bad because the cones, unlike the Australians are able to complain about inefficiency and water in buckets, with great practical sense has hired local crews that soon they set up the situation. Sure, they put the patches: because no fixtures windows remain, the firm elevators or antediluvian speed as well. Then, maybe they hired masons that until the week before were such and so many drivers or cooks are burrs in building finishes. The doors have cracks that seem highways and canvas cabinets may have come from the 50 Of the tents even the shadow: the time was running out and money in case there were none. And the amenities are basic: bed linen changed every five days, towels every three. And to think that until a couple of weeks ago the organization claimed that only 5% of the rooms had problems. “Everything is very basic – confesses Sandro Cuomo, athlete medals and now coach of the national team of sword – in my Olympics I saw villages in the rough that would later become new neighborhoods but this is really very essential. Of course, in Rio we do not seek comfort, try medals. ” Already, medals …
Those who hopes to see the premier Renzi, arrived yesterday in Brazil. The first day of the premier overseas was one of solidarity, enterprise and sports. In the morning, in Salvador de Bahia, after the visit to the shrine Basilica Senhor do Bonfim, met, in the favela Massaranduba, missionaries and boys of Beija Flor project, a school of 150 children, which is one of the 130 projects handled by Agata Smeralda in the world. The Florentine Onlus has been since 1991 in programs of distance adoptions, in school projects and support to motherhood and was founded by Mauro Barsi, presents in Salvador and rewarded by Renzi, when he was mayor, with the gold florin and recently honored as knight of merit.
Then, the prime minister has moved to the educational center John Paul II of AVSI Onlus and center Dom Lucas Moreira Neves, where the boys, saved from the favelas, have started to work “the great joy of being here is shared – said the prime minister – by the associations who celebrate the law on the third sector, the voluntary ones and the one against food waste. There is nice and big Italy that grows with the extraordinary work of the volunteers. There is a gold medal that you volunteers and missionaries win every day. ” The morning was spent in Salvador between the memory of Don Renzo Rossi, who was committed since the 60 years in Brazil, and solidarity so that Renzi in a post on Facebook wrote: “I want to thank Italians who make international cooperation in the world: we are proud of your generosity and your professionalism. ” “But the big news is the real different look launched on the third sector and voluntary, are the more money for international cooperation, autism law or After us, the third sector reform, and the law on waste food ‘.
in the afternoon, then, arriving in Rio, where Renzi attended, with ambassador Antonio Bernardini, the lighting of the immense Christ the Redeemer. Finally, in the evening (the night in Italy) the appointment at Casa Italy, the pole sport and made in Italy. In this former club-hotel from the great beauty, the prime minister was able to see the most beautiful Italy, that of the design of food excellence, technological and artistic, Italy that can give new life to the GDP.
Today, after the flag-raising with the Italian athletes in the Village, the prime minister will fly to Sao Paulo to meet the Italian community, and tomorrow will be back to Rio for the ceremony to open the Games.
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