Name: Is Rio ready? | FT World
Uploaded: 2016-08-01T09:09:20.000Z
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Gerund

Sometimes you're not good at starting points,

Sentences with adverbs of degree

So that's a very clear example of what we have here.

the people were judging us if we can deliver this stadium the Velodromo,

Well, our budget is something around 2.5 billion dollars.

There is some expenses that along the way,

if it's proper or not, if it's proper to close the budget in the end of the Games.

But today, we can tell that we are balanced.

What the State has contributed right now,

is something like 400 million reais for the Games.

And the debts that they have is something like 11 billion reais.

So you can see that there is no correlation between the investment that they have done in the Games

So the games is not the one that's driving that situation for the State.

We have improved from 20% to 50%, the sewage around the Guanabara Bay.

So I think the 80% of the Guanabara Bay when that was created was not really technical basis for that.

It was a simple calculation and someone, let's say, mentioned that point.

And I think a very important lesson is that,

the Games needs to be an instrument of developing the city,

we are not only about the beaches, and so on.

If you're talking about all the service that will be around,

the number of people that we are teaching English,

that we are doing these investments and so on,

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Is Rio ready? | FT World

situation

absolutely

people

improve