A good example of a legacy not just for Rio, but also for Brazil and Latin American, is the construction of the Olympic Training Center (COT in Portuguese), a key project that will mark a new era of training, preparation and development of our athletes and will also offer qualification programs to coaches and other sport professionals. The Center will make available top competition venues, a full training, service and support  infrastructure that will increase our international competitiveness. The periods of stay will vary according to the sport discipline and targeted objectives. On average, about 1,000 athletes will benefit every day from the high performance training programs.

The following sports will be covered initially: aquatic sports (diving, swimming, synchronized swimming and water polo), archery, athletics (indoor and outdoor), badminton, basketball, boxing, cycling (track), fencing, gymnastics (rhythmic, artistic and trampoline), handball, futsal, judo, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling. Sport medicine and sport science resources will be made available to athletes concomitantly to their training with the purpose of helping them to find out more about their physical aptitudes and improve performance based on analyses and researches, whose results will directly enhance their performance. Targeting an integral training, the Center will also set up an Educational Unit offering several programs that will enable athletes to develop other skills.

Two venues built especially for the Pan American Games 2007 – Maria Lenk Aquatic Park and the Velodrome – will become part of the Olympic Training Center to be built over a 90-hectare area.