RIO 2016: CITY HALL PRESENTS LEGACY PLAN FOR THE OLYMPIC PARK AND THE X-PARK Education, social projects and high-performance sports will share the use of the greatest stage of the Olympic Games. At Deodoro, the audience will have access to the second biggest leisure area in the city Download presentation in Portuguese: Download videos: Deodoro h264 - Deodoro mpeg - Olympic Park h264 - Olympic Park mpeg - Rio de Janeiro, July 29, 2015 – The first one will become a large sports and educational complex in the Barra da Tijuca and Jacarepaguá area for public school students and high-performance athletes, sharing the space for social projects and events. The other, in Deodoro, will be an open to the population, which will serve about 1.5 million people from 10 neighborhoods and three neighboring municipalities in a region with a high concentration of youngsters lacking recreational areas. Rio de Janeiro City Hall announces today how the Olympic Park, the heart of the Rio 2016 Games, and the Deodoro X-Park will be used after the biggest sporting event on the planet, enabling educational background with emphasis on sports, access to the population for leisure purposes and legacy for high-performance athletes. The projects embody the commitment of the City Hall to generate a significant social and sporting legacy from the Games and prevent 'white elephants'. One of the highlights is the transformation of the Carioca Arena 3 - which will host taekwondo, fencing and Paralympic judo - into an Olympic Experimental School (GEO, its acronym in Portuguese) for 850 students, sharing full-time elementary education with 10 sports disciplines. The goal is to follow suit - adapting the project to our reality - of host cities that created an important legacy, benefiting its population, such as Munich (1972), Barcelona (1992), Sydney (2000) and London ( 2012). Thus will be possible to turn into reality the motto of the mayor of
The GEO Samaranch, in Santa Teresa, opened in 2012, was among the top 10 results of the educational network in IDERio in Final Years (6th to 9th grade), with an average grade of 7.4. Published in 2015, the index used to measure the quality of teaching was based on the evaluation of the Rio Exam of 2014. Sports Results The GEOs have featured in various disciplines and received numerous awards in sports competitions. The wrestling team of GEO Felix Mielli Venerando in Caju Neighborhood, opened in 2013, was champion in all events in which they participated. Among them, two stages of the Wrestling State Champions League of Rio de Janeiro State and the Student Games of the Rio de Janeiro State. In addition, two school students were classified to the national stage of the Youth Games (COB). In 2014, GEO Santa Teresa was the first public educational unit to win the Intercollegiate in history, a competition between private and public schools of Rio State. The Municipal Education Department partners with the Olympic Committee of the Netherlands since 2013, allowing sports missions to be made with Olympic and Paralympic athletes to workshops with students and teachers of GEOs Juan Samaranch, Felix Mielli and Dr. Socrates. Visits are made twice a year. OLYMPIC VILLAGES The Municipal Secretariat of Sports and Leisure (SMEL, its acronym in Portuguese) develops the practice of physical activities and sports in their 21 Olympic Villages around the city. There are 100 free activities among Olympic, non-Olympic, Paralympic, recreational and cultural assisting more than 30.000 children and adults of all ages enrolled in activities with set schedules and guided by skilled professionals. The Olympic Villages are located throughout the city as follows: nine in the North Zone (Mangueira, Vila Isabel, two in Ramos, Maré, Encantado, Penha, Honório Gurgel and Acari), seven in the West Zone (Jacarepaguá, Vila Kennedy, Padre Miguel, Campo Grande, Santa Cruz, Pedra Guaratiba and Deodoro), four Downtown (Center, Gamboa, Santo Cristo and Caju) and one in the South Zone (Vidigal). The Olympic Villages are open from Tuesdays to Sundays (in certain cases on Mondays), and Saturdays and Sundays it opens only for recreation purposes. In order to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, SMEL develops the practice of 50 sports and leisure activities for 3.014 students with physical limitations in 18 Olympic