“Rio Olympics 2016: Should Brazil have done better with Olympic legacy?”, 20 March 2017

...The 23-year-old came a creditable ninth in the women's archery at Rio 2016...[H]er first Games, and she's a genuine medal prospect for Tokyo 2020 - part of what should be Brazil's Olympic sporting legacy...Ane Marcelle explains how, less than a month after the Games ended, she lost most of her funding, her coach and other vital backing."The Brazilian Olympic Committee cut everything: my health insurance, my salary, everything," she says, barely able to contain her disappointment. "We made history in archery, achieving something no Brazilian had ever achieved. But it's all over. It made me think my sacrifice wasn't worth it."Her story is not untypical for dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Brazilian athletes who face an uncertain future little more than six months after the jamboree that was Rio 2016...[T]he...Olympic Park...should have been up and running as a centre of excellence for Brazilian sport...[and]...is eerily empty. Most of the venues are mothballed - empty, stripped bare of Rio 2016 logos and seating...Venues that should have been dismantled and rebuilt as schools elsewhere in the city are untouched...I've spoken to...[Isabel Swan, a three-time Olympic sailor and former medallist]...about the repeated failures of Rio state and city officials to keep their pre-Olympic pledge to clean the chronic levels of pollution and rubbish in Rio's Guanabara Bay...