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...work to do if it wants applause in 2016. True, athletes will compete in such iconic venues as the Maracană soccer stadium--the largest in South America--while rowers and triathletes will ply Rio's blue waters beneath the outstretched arms of the titanic Christ the Redeemer statue. But many of the venues for the 2016 Games--including the Joăo Havelange Olympic Stadium, where track-and-field events will take place--don't meet IOC standards or will require extensive renovations. Nearly 20 will need to be built from scratch. Cariocas, as Rio's residents are called, are still...
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...
Playing in the midst of fierce winds at Ohiri Field on a cold Saturday morning, the Harvard women’s soccer team needed more than the standard 90 minutes of play to come away with its fifth-straight win and remain undefeated in Ivy League play, as the Crimson (6-5-1, 3-0 Ivy) defeated Brown (4-7, 1-3) in overtime...
After giving up four goals to UConn on Wednesday night, sophomore goalkeeper Austin Harms and the rest of the Harvard men’s soccer team’s defense wanted a shot at redemption...
While Omosegbon’s red card may have put Brown in control of the game, it also raised the volume of the 600 fans in attendance—many of whom were Harvard soccer alumni...