de janeiro has been particularly hard hit the city had hoped that it would reap enormous benefits from the world cup and the summer olympic games but that never materialized the olympic park is deserted in twenty sixteen many olympic events took place here today it's arenas are taking. paolo melo is the president of brazil's olympic governance heritage authority the plan to privatized the olympic venues has failed virtually nothing has gone according to plan not even the scheduled disassembly. have to alice it's a mall the sports hall was supposed to be dismantled and then reassembled in pots and full schools but the city of rio which is responsible for the project doesn't have the funds. rio did derives some benefits from the games for