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The multimillion dollar stadium I will visit in Manaus, Brazil will not be used for next year's 2016 Olympics, which deems it useless.
In my statement for the Frances L. Phillips Travel Scholarship, I talked about the possibility of the stadium becoming a modern relic, such as how the arenas and tracks appear in Beijing, China following their hosting of the 2008 Olympics.
"If the stadium continues to be rarely used, the jungle and Amazonian weather will deteriorate it, and in ten or twenty years, the forest will consume the stadium and create a modern relic, such as in Beijing," I said in the statement.
Per a release from FIFA, Manaus will not host any soccer matches in next year's 2016 Olympics. The Rio de Janeiro 2016 organizing committee listed the city as a possible host for a few matches, but it does not look like the stadium will be used.
In my statement for the Frances L. Phillips Travel Scholarship, I talked about the possibility of the stadium becoming a modern relic, such as how the arenas and tracks appear in Beijing, China following their hosting of the 2008 Olympics.
"If the stadium continues to be rarely used, the jungle and Amazonian weather will deteriorate it, and in ten or twenty years, the forest will consume the stadium and create a modern relic, such as in Beijing," I said in the statement.
Per a release from FIFA, Manaus will not host any soccer matches in next year's 2016 Olympics. The Rio de Janeiro 2016 organizing committee listed the city as a possible host for a few matches, but it does not look like the stadium will be used.