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Padlocked and deteriorating: Rio Olympic legacy in tatters
Nine months after the Rio Olympics, as a culture of corruption is exposed at the highest levels, Brazilians are asking who benefited most from the Games.
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The Rio Games opening ceremony was slimmed down but still spectacular. Credit:Joe Armao
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Back view of the new Museu do Amanha (Museum of Tomorrow) facing Guanabara Bay in Rio. Credit:Getty Images
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Two people died after a 50-metre section of a bike path built as part of Olympic infrastructure improvements in Rio collapsed. Credit:Bloomberg
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Artists perform during the Closing Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. A brief period of national pride followed but reality has now set in.Credit:Getty Images
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Children play near the Olympic Park sign. The city spend about $US12 billion to organise the Games sill plagued by reports of bribes and corruption linked to the building of some facilities. Credit:AP
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A view from the mostly abandoned Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro last week.Credit:Getty Images
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Booed at the opening and closing ceremonies and now under investigation for corruption: President Michel Temer.Credit:Joe Armao
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Christ the Redeemer stands above Rio's Maracana stadium where electricity has been cut in a battle over unpaid bills. Credit:AP
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A rubbish bin lays by ripped seats at one of the dugouts in Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro.Credit:AP
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Seats jumbled in a pile inside Maracana stadium which was renovated for the World Cup and the Olympics and is currently padlocked over disputes with the rights company embroiled in a corruption scandal.Credit:AP
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Cables from a stolen TV hang inside Maracana stadium which was renovated for the 2014 World Cup at a cost of about $500 million, and largely abandoned after the Olympics and Paralympics, then hit by vandals.Credit:AP
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In the Olympic Park, three mini basketball and soccer fields and a skatepark were installed for the use of locals, but not many actually enjoy the area which is now open to the public.Credit:Getty Images
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A view from the mostly abandoned Olympic Aquatics stadium at the Rio Olympic Park last week.Credit:Getty Images
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Inside the Olympic Aquatics stadium which was designed to be dismantled and the materials reused in new facilities.Credit:Getty Images
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The translucent tapestries created by Brazilian artist Adriana Varejao fall from the exterior of the aquatic stadium in February.Credit:AP
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A view from the mostly abandoned Olympic Aquatics stadium at the Olympic Park last week.Credit:Getty Images
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A young resident looks at pig being raised in a set of occupied buildings in Rio's Mangueira favela jsut a kilometre away from Maracana stadium that received hundreds of millions of dollars in renovations.Credit:Getty Images
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If PR was a sport... Mario Andrada was forced to answer the toughest questions about the mistakes at the Olympics. Credit:Getty Images
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Team Australia athletes for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games attend their welcome ceremony at the Athletes village on August 3. A great number of apartments in the village are still unsold.Credit:Getty Images
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Fishermen protest against the pollution in Guanabara Bay, Rio, ahead of the Olympics. Credit:AP