The Rio 2016™ Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee hosts this week the 1st Rio 2016™ NOC Open Day (1st Official Rio 2016 Official Meeting with the National Olympic Committees). Organised by the functional area of the NOC Services, the meeting began on Monday with representatives from all continents: Australia, Canada, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Iran, Japan, Russia, Santa Lucia, Serb Republic, South Africa and Brazil.

During this period, the objective of Rio 2016™ is to present the National Olympic Committees with an overview of the Rio de Janeiro Games, show the progress made to date by the organisation, and offer inspection visits to the competition and Olympic Village sites.

“This is a significant stage in our cooperation between the Rio 2016 Games Organising Committee and the National Olympic Committees. We are working so that this first meeting might be helpful to the committees in their initial planning. In the end, we hope that we will have made great steps in realising another edition in the best way possible of the world´s largest sporting event, presented for the first time in South America”, said Carlos Arthur Nuzman, president of the Rio 2016™ Organising Committee.

This Monday morning the 3rd, around 30 members from the Committees participated in the presentations on the areas of Sports, Olympic Village, Accommodation, Transport and Security. In the afternoon, they visited the venues located in the Copacabana region, which will host the Rio 2016™ Games competitions, like the Glória Marina, Flamengo Park, Copacabana Beach where the beach volleyball arena will be built, Copacabana Fort and the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. For Tuesday, a visit to sports venues located in Deodoro, Maracanã and Barra da Tijuca is planned.