Seven hours of visits to the sports facilities and to studios of the broadcasting companies that have the rights of transmission of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. That was the schedule of the second day the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission spent in Rio de Janeiro. This Wednesday 20th, the 18 members of the group led by Olympic champion Nawal El Moutawakel will be meeting again with the Rio 2016 Committee and the three levels of government. “The IOC Coordination Commission had the opportunity of visiting some sports facilities and talk to the members of the Rio 2016 Committee and the three levels of government about the Rio 2016 Olympic Games infrastructure. Once again they were amazed by Rio de Janeiro beauty. It was a day with a very heavy schedule, but extremely rewarding”, said Rio 2016 Committee president, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, who was with the commission during the whole visit. Early morning, the Commission was divided in two groups. Nawal El Moutawakel, Gilbert Felli, Julio Cesar Maglione and Alex Gilady visited the TV Record studios, where they watched an institutional video and were welcomed by its president, Alexandre Raposo. The other half of the group saw the beauties of the city from another angle, a helicopter ride around Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, statue of Christ, the Redeemer and the South Zone beaches. The group met at Riocentro, which in the Rio 2016 project will be the headquarters of the competitions of four sports. At this place, Rio 2016 committee sports director, Agberto Guimarães, made a presentation on the sports and non-sports facilities foreseen for Barra da Tijuca, one of the four big areas of the Rio 2016 Games. Next stop was at the Rio Arena, where some members of the Commission even showed their abilities in basketball. Among them, Olympic medalists that excelled in other sports, such as former swimmer Alexander Popov and Sergey Bubka, of pole vault. Popov also felt at home in the Maria Lenk Aquatics Park, where he took several photos. After visiting the competition area, the Commission saw a model of how the Rio 2016 Games Olympic Park and the Olympic Villages will look like. At the João Havelange Stadium, Mayor Eduardo Paes joined the group and talked about the place, built for the Rio 2007 Pan-American Games. The final stop was at the TV Globo studios, where the delegation visited soup opera sets and was welcomed by the Central Globo Sports director, Luiz Fernando Lima. IOC Coordination Commission - In all Olympic Games editions the IOC creates a Coordination Commission that pays periodic visits to the hosting city with the aim of helping the Organizing Committee and monitors the development of the project. The group assigned to the Rio 2016 Games was formed in January this year and, the same month, the president and executive director Gilbert Felli (SUI) were in Rio de Janeiro. First woman to lead an IOC Coordination Commission, Nawal was also the first African woman to become an Olympic champion, winning the 400m hurdles at the Los Angeles 84 Games. The Coordination Commission has members of the five continents, all with previous experiences in Evaluation Commission or Olympic Games Coordination or Organizing Committees of the greatest sports event in the planet. The group represents various units of the Olympic Movement, as athletes, National Olympic Committees and International Federations, which guarantees the necessary success of the event. Besides Nawal El Moutawakel and Gilbert Felli, also making part of the group are Alex Gilady (ISR), Alexander Popov (RUS), Beatrice Allen (GAM), Ching-Kuo Wu (TPE), Francesco Ricci Bitti (ITA), Greg Hartung (AUS), Gunilla Lindberg (SUE), John D. Coates (AUS), Julio César Maglione (URU), Nat Indrapana (TAI), Nicole Hoevertsz (ARU), Patrick Joseph Hickey (IRL), Richard L. Carrión (PUR), Sergey Bubka (UKR), Timothy Tsun Ting Fok (HKG) e Willi Kaltschmitt Luján (GUA). After the IOC Coordinating Commission visit, the International Paralympics Committee (IPC) Orientation Seminar will take place, to discuss the challenges and organizing operations for the Rio 2016 Paralympics Games. IPC Executive director, Xavier Gonzalez, and Paralympics Games senior manager, Thanos Kostopoulos will be present.