Rio 2016 organizers and city officials have not talked about how the weak market could affect the potential for development of the 12.7-million-square-foot Olympic Park and its environs.

Rio de Janeiro's city hall said Tuesday that the Deodoro Olympic Park, which was to be used as a park and recreation area after the games, has been closed. Deodoro was the second-largest venue ...

Last year, during the 2016 Summer Games, it would have been hard to imagine the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro sitting empty in the hot Brazilian sun. Sadly, this is what has become of the space ...

“In this aspect, Rio is a failure.” Nobody understands this more than the fishermen who live near the main Olympic Park and athletes village, situated on the picturesque Jacarepagua Lagoo ...

When Rio opened its Olympic Park this month there was one thing conspicuously absent around the venues, walkways and public areas where visitors will gather to watch 16 sports in August ...

An aerial view shows the Olympic park which was used for Rio 2016 Olympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 15, 2017. Picture taken January 15, 2017. Nacho Doce/Reuters — -- The exciteme ...

There’s a pretty big question in Rio that doesn’t have an answer just yet. How do the countless Olympic guests expected to stay in the luxury hotels lining the beaches of Copacabana and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Just over there, the dolphin-backed Michael Phelps glides through another heat. Over here, a lone ramshackle favela house practically leans against the Olympic Park where Phelps ...

Inbee Park ran away with the ... leads by four trying to win Olympic gold. That's golf. — Jason Sobel (@JasonSobelESPN) August 20, 2016 Her performance in Rio was sublime, though.

The city of Rio de Janeiro published an animated video of what the main 2016 Olympic Park will look like, detailed to include people roaming the area. Barra Olympic Park, known as the heart of the ...

“There are no words for what is happening.” Rio 2016's slogan is “a new world.” But outside the gleaming Olympic Park, that new world has no room for the poor, da Silva said. Critics say ...

Many of Rio de Janeiro's favela communities have been hit with forced evictions in the lead up to mega-events—in particular, the Vila Autódromo favela, which is next to the main Olympic park.