Friday, 20 April 2012

APNewsBreak: Land dispute threatens Olympic course (The Associated Press)

Luxury condominiums overlook the area, on left, where the Rio 2016 Olympic golf course is planned to be built in Rio de Janeiro's Barra da Tijuca neighborhood, Brazil, Friday, April 20, 2012. Rio 2016 organizers are facing an unexpected challenge to deliver the first Olympic golf tournament in more than 100 years because of a legal dispute over the land where the historic course is supposed to be built. The dispute could force city officials to have to find a new location, meaning the project would have to start from scratch and organizers could have problems getting the course ready in time for test events in 2015 as initially planned. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

SAO PAULO (AP) A land dispute is threatening construction of the golf course for the 2016 Summer Games, when the sport is to be played at the Olympics for the first time since 1904.




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