Rio 2016: more than half of the buildings set to house athletes during the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro are still not fully ready, with less than two weeks to go until the start of the games.
The Rio 2016 organising committee has admitted that 19 of the 31 towers that make up the Athletes Village have yet to pass full checks, according to the Guardian.

Stress tests are yet to be carried out on more than half of the 17-storey buildings, as they were handed over behind schedule.

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Rio 2016 spokesperson Mário Andrada admitted to the Guardian that only 12 of the 31 tower blocks have been checked and approved.
The Brazilian government's website for the games states that the Athletes Village was delivered to the Rio 2016 committee on 15 June 2016.
The project ? also known as Ilha Pura ? cost almost one billion US dollars, and was undertaken privately by property developer Carvalho Hosken and construction firm Odebrecht. After the Olympic and Paralympic games, the companies plan to sell the apartments to recover costs ? although only 240 of the 3,604 apartments had been pre-sold earlier this year.
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