TheFuture Arena(Portuguese: Arena do Futuro) was a temporary sporting venue inBarra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,that was used forhandball at the 2016 Summer Olympics,andgoalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
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| Location | Barra Olympic Park Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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| Owner | City of Rio de Janeiro |
| Capacity | 12,000 (Olympics) |
| Opened | 2016 |
After the games, the venue was planned to be dismantled and reassembled as four schools.[1][2][3]As of August 2017, these plans had been abandoned by Rio's mayor Marcelo Crivella, but were reinstated sometime after.[4]
In 2022, demolition of the arena started.[5]The first of the two reassembled schools opened in February 2024, with the other two opening in March, all in a lesser developed part in the west ofRio de Janeiro.All four schools teach will teachSTEAM fields,as part of a model introduced by theMunicipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro.[6]
References
edit- ^"Olympic Handball".Rio 2016. Archived fromthe originalon 24 February 2016.Retrieved7 March2016.
- ^"Future Arena".Rio 2016. Archived fromthe originalon 28 January 2015.Retrieved7 March2016.
- ^"Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games venues to leave sporting, educational and social legacy to city".Rio 2016. 29 July 2015. Archived fromthe originalon 10 March 2016.Retrieved7 March2016.
- ^"One year after Rio: What's left behind after the flame goes out".ESPN.Retrieved2017-08-11.
- ^Prefeitura do Rio começa a desmontar arena no Parque Olímpico
- ^"Rio 2016 arenas become schools and public facilities as Games legacy unfolds".olympics /ioc/.Retrieved2017-08-11.
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