TVCE (SPORTS) — Rio 2016 organisers have scrapped plans for a 4,000-seater stand at the rowing and canoeing venue as part of a 500 million dollar-cost-cutting measure.
Brazil is in a deep recession that is affecting all aspects of the Olympics, which begins in August.
Only about half of the 4.5 million Olympic tickets aimed at the domestic audience have been sold.
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The numbers are much worse for the Paralympics, with only 300,000 out of three million domestic tickets sold.
Organisers are scaling back in a number of areas to balance the operating budget of £1.3bn, with the proposed grandstand at the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in central Rio de Janeiro one of the casualties.
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