Review: Rio Olympic Venues posted: 23/08/2016
With 306 events played across 42 disciplines in 37 venues around Brazil, the 2016 Rio Olympic Games ended after 16 days on Sunday night with a preview to the 2020 Games in Tokyo. Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) has produced feeds of all live competitions from every venue with a staff of more than 7,000 technicians, editors, cameramen and administration people. Within Rio de Janeiro, four Olympic Zones have been designated to host the majority of events: Barra Olympic Park, Deodoro, Maracan , and Copacabana. Only football was played outside the city limits: in Belo Horizonte, Bras lia, Manaus, Salvador, and S o Paulo.
Maracan Stadium Event: Opening and Closing Ceremonies
Location: Maracan
The centerpiece of the Olympic Games, has hosted the Opening Ceremony before it was transitioning to host the semifinal and final matches of the men's and women's football competition. The venue was modernized prior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Olympics Aquatics Stadium Event: Swimming
Location: Barra Olympic Park
One of the Games' temporary venues, the Olympics Aquatics Stadium has two pools - one for warming up, one for competition - that will be used for swimming and water polo competitions. The building will be dismantled after the Games conclude. The venue provided plenty of great camera positions for a series of events that captured the attention of fans everywhere. The personalities are global superstars, and the technology used to capture the events delivered stunning images from a wide variety of interesting and often wet angles.
Olympic Stadium Event: Athletics
Location: Maracan
The Olympic Stadium, also located in Maracan , was constructed in 2007, when Brazil hosted the Pan American Games. Rio's Olympic organizers have temporarily expanded seating capacity to accommodate crowds for athletics and football competition. The second week of the Rio Olympics had shifted much of the focus out to the Olympic Stadium, home of the athletics (aka track and field events). There were plenty of different types of events that required plenty of different approaches to camera placement and operations. 33 cameras were in use to cover the integrated track, 14 cameras for high jump, 12 cameras for pole vault, 13 cameras for shot put, 14 cameras for discus and hammer and 13 cameras for long and triple jump.
Beach Volleyball Arena Event: Beach Volleyball
Location: Copacabana
Another temporary structure, the arena sits on the Copacabana Beach and featured a center competition court, five training courts, and two warm-up courts. Perhaps no other sport is more closely associated with Rio de Janeiro than beach volleyball, which has been in the Olympic Games since Atlanta 1996. The men's and women's competitions took place on the famous sands of Copacabana beach.
Riocentro Event: Boxing
Location: Barra (Outside Olympic Park)
The newly constructed Pavilion 6 of the Riocentro facility spans 7,500 sq. meters and hosted the boxing competition. In total, Riocentro housed four Pavilions that were used in Olympic competitions; in addition to boxing, the facility hosted badminton, table tennis, and weightlifting.
Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre Event: Diving
Location: Barra Olympic Park
The Aquatics Center harks back to the 2007 Pan Am Games and has been renovated. In addition to hosting diving, it housed the water polo group stages and synchronized swimming competition. When diving made its Olympic debut at St Louis 1904, athletes aimed for the longest jump. Now their spectacular aerial acrobatics are judged to the minutest detail. In Rio, men and women competed in four events, individually or in duos, from 10m and 3m.
Equestrian Centre Event: Dressage
Location: Deodoro
The only Olympic sport in which men and women compete against each other, equestrian has three disciplines: eventing, dressage, and jumping - each with both individual and team competitors. The camera coverage included 16 cameras, five of which are super-slo-mo-capable. Built for the 2007 Pan American Games, the Olympic Equestrian Centre was modernised and expanded for Rio 2016. The one-million-square-metre facility hosts the jumping and dressage arena, cross-country course and horse and trainer accommodation.
Olympic Golf Course Event: Golf
Location: Barra (Outside Olympic Park)
Golf retureds to the Olympics in 2016, and the inaugural competition took place on a course built specifically for the Games. The 18-hole facility, part of an environmental recovery project, is now open to the public. The Olympic Games now have its first male and woman golf champions in more than a century.
Rio Olympic Arena Event: Gymnastics
Location: Barra Olympic Park
The Rio Olympic Arena was a product of the 2007 Pan Am Games. In addition to artistic gymnastics it hosted rhythmic and trampoline gymnastics events. Balance beam, pommel horse, parallel bars, rings... in artistic gymnastics the athletes compete on different apparatus in individual and team events, eight for men and six for women. This traditional sport has been in the Games since Athens 1896.
Future Arena Event: Handball
Location: Barra Olympic Park
Handball is tactical, skillful, and fiercely contested with goals galore. This event was taking place in the FTA Future Arena within Barra Olympic Park, with coverage provided by 17 cameras. Field handball made its Olympic debut at the Berlin 1936 Games, but the sport has been played indoors since Munich 1972. There are men's and women's events.
Deodoro Stadium Event: Rugby Sevens
Location: Deodoro
This temporary venue was constructed around an existing polo field and, besides rugby sevens, it hosted equestrian and the modern pentathlon's combined running and shooting sections. Although the 15-player version of the sport appeared at the Olympic Games be
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Review: Rio Olympic Venues posted: 23/08/2016 
