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Rio de Janeiro has a lot riding on 2016 Summer Olympics


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LONDON — For all those beach volleyball players who thought Horse Guards Parade transformed itself into the sport's best Olympic venue yet, wait until they arrive on the Brazilian sands of Ipanema Beach in four years.

And by the time I run in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, it will be at least my 10th marathon (gotta run in the Olympic qualifier, ya' know). And I gotta learn Portuguese by then. Editor's note: Brian Dohn, a northeast recruiting analyst for

And by the time I run in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, it will be at least my 10th marathon (gotta run in the Olympic qualifier, ya' know). And I gotta learn Portuguese by then. Editor's note: Brian Dohn, a northeast recruiting analyst for

RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in southern Brazil say five vehicles have crashed on a highway, leaving 10 people dead and 89 injured. Highway patrol officers in the state of Parana told the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper that the initial cause of the Saturday

Providência was formed in 1897 when veterans of the bloody Canudos war in Brazil's northeast were promised land in Rio de Janeiro, which was then the federal capital. Upon arriving, they found no such land available. After squatting in front of the