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The Olympic Park in Rio is a ghost town and its pools are turning green again

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Maracanã Stadium, which held the opening and closing ceremonies and several of the Rio Olympics’ biggest events, is abandoned and plagued by looters, and Julio de Lamare Aquatic Park’s warm-up pools are filled with stagnant water that has turned green. Organizer’s blame the Olympic Park’s troubles on Brazil’s recession.

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