Protests against the Rio Olympics must be understood in the context of the growing global reaction to both the way these mega-events are organised and the entities promoting them.
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Zika had already reached 46,000 probable cases by the end of May 2016 and is transmitted by the same mosquito species as dengue and Chikungunya.
An architect rides through the streets of Rio amidst a cacophony of drills and jackhammers. He wonders: Is it worth it? What will the legacy of all this construction be?
The Olympics provide Brazilians with a welcome distraction from their country’s fraught and bitter politics.
The Olympics may give Brazilians a respite from their perfect storm of recession, corruption and political dysfunction, but it won’t last long.
New York, Berlin and Paris have all suffered some ill effects from online rental platforms – without proper regulations, Rio could follow.
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, known as PPK, became president arguably because his citizens are fed up with corruption. Scandal-plagued Brazil offers a template for how he could tackle it.
The countries who regularly top the medal table spend millions on training and developing athletes, money that poorer countries simply can’t afford to spend on their sporting stars.
Like Brazil’s favela dwellers, America’s working poor felt a sense of pride and community in their shantytowns – and desperately resisted the powerful interests that sought to demolish them.
The chance the someone at the Rio games will import the virus to their home country is low.
The 2016 Olympic Games is an invitation to a city known for partying more than anything else.
The strongest resistance to the United Nations resolution to promote LGBTI rights came from Muslim and African states. Many of these countries still criminalise same-sex relationships.
With the one-city format no longer viable, an Olympics expert proposes a radical new vision for the format of the Olympic Games. It actually makes a lot of sense.
The marketing wizardry used by sports multinationals to sell these little round things by the truckload.
The state government of Rio de Janeiro has declared a state of “public calamity”, as it struggles to cope with severe economic and social crises.
It’s unclear what South Africa’s attitude will be to negotiating new deals with the UK and the EU. In the past seven years it has lost its appetite for trade deals, particularly with the developed world.
To celebrate 100 years of football’s oldest international competition, South American fans have flocked north, sticking two fingers up to Donald Trump.
Only a few years ago, Brazil was considered the global economy’s shining star. How did it fall so far so fast?
They kill thousands of animals and people every year by spreading rabies. New research findings could solve the problem.
Academics have sent an open letter to the World Health Organisation calling for the Olympics to be postponed or moved because of the Zika threat. They’re overreacting.
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Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate, King's College London
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross
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Director of Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University
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Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor in Organisation & Sustainability, University of Exeter
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Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Political Science, University of Florida
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Associate professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
