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Rio says three new Olympic venues ready

Xinhua, November 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

Rio de Janeiro's city government has announced the completion of construction work on three new Olympic venues.

The recently finished structures are Future Arena, which will stage handball and goal-ball, the canoe slalom course and the golf course, Rio's prefecture said in a statement on Wednesday.

The BMX and mountain bike tracks were completed earlier this year, taking the number of finished venues to five.

Meanwhile, work at the three Carioca Arenas - which will host basketball, judo, fencing and taekwondo in addition to Paralympic sports - surpassed 90%.

Overall work at the Rio Olympic Park was 94% complete, the statement said.

The least advanced venues were the the velodrome (73%), Youth Arena (70%) and tennis centre (85%).

The Rio 2016 Games, to be held from August 5 to 21, will be the first Olympics in South America. Endit