Padlocked and falling apart: Rio Olympic legacy in tatters

By Andrew Purcell
Updated May 27 2017 - 8:38am, first published 8:27am
Waves batter the incline near the site of a collapsed section of a bicycle path in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday, April 21, 2016. Two people have died after a 50-meter section of a recently completed cycle path built as part of Rio de Janeiro's preparations to host the 2016 summer Olympics collapsed. Photographer: Nadia Sussman/Bloomberg
Waves batter the incline near the site of a collapsed section of a bicycle path in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday, April 21, 2016. Two people have died after a 50-meter section of a recently completed cycle path built as part of Rio de Janeiro's preparations to host the 2016 summer Olympics collapsed. Photographer: Nadia Sussman/Bloomberg

The Rio Olympics were supposed to signal Brazil's arrival on the world stage. Nine months later, as a culture of corruption is exposed at the highest levels, Brazilians are asking who benefited most from the Games.

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