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In anticipation of the Olympic Games opening this week-end in Rio De Janeiro, French artist JR unveiled a series of giant installations. 

The first giant street art piece represents Sudanese athlete Mohamed Younes Idriss who lives and trains in cologne, germany. ‘ He missed out on qualification for the 2016 rio olympics but he is there some how,’ JR says. 

The second artwork which can be found around the barra neighborhood, showing a diver leaping into an adjacent area of the ocean.  also attached to large-scale metal beams, the artwork illustrates an athlete with arms stretched open hovering over nearby rocks and making its way into the water below.