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May 16 '19
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazilian soldiers were on the streets Saturday, checking out spots around the city that will get intense security when the Rio de Janeiro Olympics open in just under four weeks. Asics Schweiz Schuhe Discount .Armored vehicles and trucks carrying troops were accompanied by soldiers decked out in camouflage gear and matching helmets, with rifles slung over their shoulders. The soldiers covered the city -- from Copacabana Beach to the central train station and the renovated port area.Rios rising crime rate is at the top of a long list of problems confronting South Americas first games: the Zika epidemic, severe water pollution, a crushing recession and slow ticket sales.In addition, Brazil President Dilma Rousseff faces an impeachment trial that is likely to start just after the Olympics end.The one-day show of force was intense with the Olympics set for Aug. 5-21.What we are doing today is patrolling and checking out the areas where we can deploy during the games, Brazilian army spokesman Colonel Mario Medina said.He said the full deployment would begin on July 24 and continue through the end of the Paralympic Games. Those games are Sept. 7-18.Rio de Janeiro will use about 85,000 soldiers and police to secure the games, about twice as many as London four years ago. About 10,500 athletes are expected for the Olympics with 300,000 to 500,000 foreign tourists.We wont have a problem during the Olympics, Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes said Saturday. Id say Rio will be the most secure place in the world during this period.The state of Rio de Janeiro has acknowledged its broke, which has delayed salaries for police and hospital workers and raised worries about security in an already crime-ridden city.Passengers arriving recently at Rios international airport have been greeted by police holding up banners that read: Welcome to Hell.Saturdays deployment comes in a wake of reports of rising violence, which included mangled body parts washing up on Copacabana Beach, and sailors from Australia and Spain being robbed as they trained for the games.Human Rights Watch said that police have killed 645 people in Rio so far this year. It says some were most likely the result of the legitimate use of force, but many others were extrajudicial executions.Officials are also worried about terrorism and say they are they are working with foreign governments to detect any threats.---AP video journalist Diarlei Rodrigues contributed to this report.---Stephen Wade on Twitter: http://twitter.com/StephenWadeAP . His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/stephen-wade ;Asics Schweiz Schuhe Sale . James, who turned 29 on Monday, injured his groin Friday during the Heats overtime loss at Sacramento. He sat out the following game, a 108-107 win Saturday in Portland, before coming back to help send the Nuggets to their seventh consecutive loss. Günstig Asics Schweiz Sneaker . Hazard cut in from the left and scored with a swerving right-footed shot for ninth goal of the season, which proved to be enough for the victory despite Chelseas forwards again lacking a cutting edge up front. http://www.asicsschweiz.ch/ .C. - The Carolina Hurricanes have placed backup goalie Anton Khudobin on injured reserve with an unspecified lower-body injury. A pair of world title elimination fights, one in the lightweight division and one at bantamweight, were ironed out this week following IBF purse bids.On Tuesday, Warriors Boxing bid $61,000 to gain promotional rights to the lightweight eliminator between former world title challengers Richard Commey and Denis Shafikov. Warriors Boxing, bidding on behalf of Russian promoter Ural Boxing Promotions, beat the only other offer of $45,305 by German outfit Sauerland Event, which promotes Commey.Ural Boxing Promotions plans to stage the fight on Dec. 7 at a location to be determined in Russia, Shafikovs home country.The winner of Commey-Shafikov will become the mandatory challenger for 135-pound world titleholder Robert Easter Jr. (18-0, 14 KOs), of Toledo, Ohio. Easter suffered a flash knockdown in the eighth round but won the vacant belt by spirited split decision against Commey (24-1, 22 KOs), of Ghana, on Sept. 9 in Reading, Pennsylvania.Commey and Shafikov is entitled to 60 percent of the winning bid ($36,600), and Shafikov will get the remaining 40 percent ($24,400).Shafikovs only losses are by decision in lightweight world title bouts. Asics Schweiz Outlet. He lost to Miguel Vazquez in 2014 and to Rances Barthelemy in 2015. Shafikov (37-2-1, 20 KOs) bounced back from the loss to Barthelemy to knock out 2012 U.S. Olympian Jamel Herring on July 2 in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card on ESPN.On Thursday, a bantamweight title elimination fight between former flyweight and junior bantamweight titlist Omar Narvaez (46-2-2, 24 KOs), of Argentina, and Puerto Ricos Emmanuel Rodriguez (15-0, 10 KOs) was set when K.O. International won the purse bid with an offer of $126,101. Warriors Boxing, the only other bidder, offered $57,500.The Narvaez-Rodriguez winner will secure a mandatory shot against world titleholder Lee Haskins (34-3, 14 KOs) of England.Narvaez will receive 60 percent ($75,661) of the winning bid, and Rodriguez will receive the remaining 40 percent ($50,440). The fight is due to take place within 90 days, or no later than Jan. 27. ' ' '
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