The organizing committee for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 was headed just four months after the election of the Brazilian city, after the resignation of its general secretary, Carlos Roberto Osorio, announced last Friday.
Osorio, who held the highest office of the executive committee and also was largely responsible for organizing the Pan American Games Rio 2007, announced Friday in a press conference that leaves the office to work as mayor to lead carioca A new secretariat of urban aion gold kinah.
The manager is not wholly disconnected from the Games project and integrate a board director in charge of voting the major directives Olympic project while remaining outside the decision-making day.
Osorio leaves office will be abolished and its functions were divided among five managers who will be hired by the consultant & Berndtson Odgers, who also worked for the committees of the Vancouver 2012 and London 2010, in the words of the Brazilian Olympic Committee president (COB), Carlos Arthur Nuzman, aion kinah.
The COB president will present these changes in structure next week at a meeting with International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Vancouver, which also show the progress of organization since the dispute to beat Rio Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago in the vote last October 2.
In the Canadian city, Nuzman show the speed with which the organizing committee was formed, just days after the election, and will detail the programs that the government has already boosted security and financing of hotels, buy kinah.
Also showcase projects that are being built, as the reform of the degraded port area, which was to undertake regardless of the choice of Rio and will refer back to the regional government’s plan to install a police unit in Rio’s favelas some, formerly occupied by armed gangs.
After Vancouver, the committee will carioca accountable to the IOC at a meeting of the cities that were candidates for the 2016 Games to be held in Lausanne (Switzerland) on April 8 and then in the SportAccord sports convention in Dubai later that month.
Between 18 and 20 May, the organizing committee of the 2016 Games the IOC will make its second visit to Rio and a week later, the Brazilians will make their first appearance at the IOC Executive Board at its headquarters in Switzerland.