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Brazil has pulled off a successful Olympic Games despite suffering a lack of funding, deep recession and social turmoil. Can troubled Japan do the same in four years time? Laura Frykberg finds out.
The Olympic Village will be the athletes' home for the coming three weeks. Here's a sneak peek into everything they will have during the Games.
Several venues have been build for Rio 2016 and the biggest one is the Barra Olympic park, the main place at the Olympic Games.
The Australian Olympic team refuses to move in to Rio de Janeiro's village for athletes, saying the accommodation is "not safe or ready" ahead of next month's games.
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Saint-Denis, near Paris, for the inauguration of the Olympic Village, five months before the start of the Games (26 July - 11 August). IMAGES