The Rio 2016 bid presentation to host the 2016 Olympics scored points in Bali with the Olympic Council of Asia General Assembly on Tuesday. Despite being halfway around the world, the Rio 2016 bid team is feeling at home in the tropical climes at the First Asian Beach Games.

This was the Rio 2016 team’s second official presentation of its bid for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The first presentation was made in Mexico earlier this month. Representatives of the member countries of the Asian council displayed keen interest in the Brazilian vision. Carlos Arthur Nuzman, president of Rio 2016, led the presentation, along with the bid’s secretary general, Carlos Roberto Osorio, and Adriana Behar, one of Brazilian beach volleyball’s greatest stars.

“This presentation was extremely important. We gave the representatives of the Asian countries a better understanding of our city and country,“ Nuzman said. “South America could host the Olympic and Paralympic Games for the first time in history in 2016. We could offer the Olympic Movement a new platform for growth, and add value to the Olympic brand with an unparalleled celebration.”

The presentation reinforced the full commitment of the municipal, state and federal governments to the bid, and detailed the Games legacy for South America, citing the development of the Olympic Training Center, which in legacy mode would host 22 sporting disciplines.

“Brazilian Games would catalyze the continuing social transformation of Rio and of our nation, and also open up new markets to the Olympic Movement; not just in Brazil, or across South America, but beyond that, into many newly developed and developing nations around the world,” said Osorio. “Asia’s sports community has been very receptive to our proposal, and we hope we can count on their support in bringing the Games for the first time in history to South America.”

Beach volleyball champion Adriana Behar’s Olympic spirit lit up the Rio 2016 presentation. “For Brazilians, the sun and the sea are a part of life. I will never forget starting to play volleyball as a young girl on the beach in Rio. I have a dream of seeing the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro, and seeing beach volleyball on Copacabana beach,” she said.