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...local government can at least claim to be conscious of the challenge, the same cannot be said for the IOC and FIFA, international soccer's governing body, which chose Brazil as the host of the 2014 World Cup. Delegates awarded Rio the Olympics for legitimate reasons, and no soccer fan would argue that the city's legendary Maracana Stadium does not deserve to host the World Cup. But both organizations sidestepped the problem of law enforcement and ensuring the safety of the hundreds of thousands of foreigners who are expected at those events...
...security situation other than to euphemistically note that the city "faces public security challenges." FIFA, for its part, declared that Brazil's "authorities have the know-how and resources to improve the situation before 2014, and would have the determination to manage it during the 2014 FIFA World Cup." (Read "London 2012: An Olympics Progress Report...
...pictures of Johannesburg preparing for the World Cup...
Brazil will get a valuable practice run when it hosts the soccer World Cup in 2014; construction of venues for that event has yet to begin. Brazilians have long had to endure the joke that theirs was the country of the future and always would be. With that future just seven years away, they now have to prove they'll be ready...
Hitting into the wind on the second extra hole, Wentzell settled the ball 20 feet from the cup. Williams was also able to close in on the hole, getting the ball within 12 feet...