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Rio's 29th Sport: Building The Perfect Corporate 'Dream House'
As the athletes strived for gold, the world's biggest companies engaged in their own sport during the Rio Olympics - out-glamming each other with spectacular hospitality houses.
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Rio 2016: Partick Hickey 'Temporarily' Stands Down From Olympic Roles
Patrick Hickey, 71, was arrested at his Rio de Janeiro hotel after being accused of ticket scalping, ambush marketing and conspiracy.
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Rio Olympics: Protests Darken Mood Ahead of Games Opening Ceremony
The protests are scheduled outside a luxury Copacabana hotel, then later near the Maracana stadium where the Olympic torch relay will end with the lighting of the symbolic cauldron
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Argentina's Olympic Football Team Robbed at Mexico Hotel
Argentina Football Association (AFA) vice president Claudio Tapia said the theft took place when Mexico and the South American team played to a 0-0 draw in the central city of Puebla on Thursday night
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Genzebe Dibaba's Coach Arrested For Doping Probe in Spain
Jama Aden has a proven track record of nurturing some of the best middle-distance runners
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British Olympic Sailors Robbed in Rio
Two 2012 London Olympic silver medalists were chased by two men while walking back to their hotel in Rio de Janeiro on Flamengo beach, police said Thursday.
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FIFA Partner Executive Flees Ticket Sales Arrest: Police
Raymond Whelan, a British director of FIFA partner company Match Services, fled the luxurious Copacabana Palace Hotel after a judge ordered him and 10 other suspects to be held in detention, the Rio prosecutor's office said.
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World Cup 2014 Official Released From Jail After 'Tickets Scandal'
Ray Whelan, a former agent of England football legend Bobby Charlton, a director at Match Hospitality, was arrested at Rio de Janeiro's luxurious beachfront Copacabana Palace Hotel -- where Fifa president Sepp Blatter and other Fifa officials have been staying during the World Cup finals -- days after 11 people were rounded up in a raid to dismantl...
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World Cup 2014: Ticket Official Arrested for Illegal Sales
Ray Whelan, a director at Match Hospitality, was detained at Rio de Janeiro's luxurious beachfront Copacabana Palace Hotel yesterday, days after 11 people were rounded up in a raid to dismantle the network.
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FIFA Member Behind Illegal World Cup Ticket Sales: Police
The FIFA official, who was not identified, is believed to be staying at the Copacabana Palace, a luxury Rio de Janeiro hotel, Barcuke told reporters.
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Need a World Cup Room? Try a Slum or Love Hotel
For those who think Rio's hotels seem a tad expensive at the World Cup, there are always alternatives - perhaps a room in a "love hotel" or in a "pacified" slum.
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Now taking World Cup bookings, Rio's slums
With hotel rooms in perilously short supply and even modest hostels in Rio de Janeiro charging as much as $450 for a bed during the World Cup in Brazil next year, the residents of Rocinha and other favelas, or slums, are making the most of the city's acute shortage of lodging
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Blog: Sidelights at Rio+20
Who says summits are boring and don't make for some fun. It's not always about the punctuation in the outcome draft or the informal informals, as the meetings in the run up to the high level session were called. There's always room for lighter moments. Now China's propaganda machinery is well known. But we had a first-hand experience of it when, u...
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Gunmen take guests hostage at Rio luxury hotel
Gunmen engaged in a shootout with police, took 30 people hostage at a luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.As the fire-fight continued a passer-by was killed as she was getting out of a taxi.But surrounded and pinned down by police, they freed their captives within hours and surrendered to police.Witnesses said the up-market, beachside neighb...
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Rio's 29th Sport: Building The Perfect Corporate 'Dream House'
As the athletes strived for gold, the world's biggest companies engaged in their own sport during the Rio Olympics - out-glamming each other with spectacular hospitality houses.
-
Rio 2016: Partick Hickey 'Temporarily' Stands Down From Olympic Roles
Patrick Hickey, 71, was arrested at his Rio de Janeiro hotel after being accused of ticket scalping, ambush marketing and conspiracy.
-
Rio Olympics: Protests Darken Mood Ahead of Games Opening Ceremony
The protests are scheduled outside a luxury Copacabana hotel, then later near the Maracana stadium where the Olympic torch relay will end with the lighting of the symbolic cauldron
-
Argentina's Olympic Football Team Robbed at Mexico Hotel
Argentina Football Association (AFA) vice president Claudio Tapia said the theft took place when Mexico and the South American team played to a 0-0 draw in the central city of Puebla on Thursday night
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Genzebe Dibaba's Coach Arrested For Doping Probe in Spain
Jama Aden has a proven track record of nurturing some of the best middle-distance runners
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British Olympic Sailors Robbed in Rio
Two 2012 London Olympic silver medalists were chased by two men while walking back to their hotel in Rio de Janeiro on Flamengo beach, police said Thursday.
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FIFA Partner Executive Flees Ticket Sales Arrest: Police
Raymond Whelan, a British director of FIFA partner company Match Services, fled the luxurious Copacabana Palace Hotel after a judge ordered him and 10 other suspects to be held in detention, the Rio prosecutor's office said.
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World Cup 2014 Official Released From Jail After 'Tickets Scandal'
Ray Whelan, a former agent of England football legend Bobby Charlton, a director at Match Hospitality, was arrested at Rio de Janeiro's luxurious beachfront Copacabana Palace Hotel -- where Fifa president Sepp Blatter and other Fifa officials have been staying during the World Cup finals -- days after 11 people were rounded up in a raid to dismantl...
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World Cup 2014: Ticket Official Arrested for Illegal Sales
Ray Whelan, a director at Match Hospitality, was detained at Rio de Janeiro's luxurious beachfront Copacabana Palace Hotel yesterday, days after 11 people were rounded up in a raid to dismantle the network.
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FIFA Member Behind Illegal World Cup Ticket Sales: Police
The FIFA official, who was not identified, is believed to be staying at the Copacabana Palace, a luxury Rio de Janeiro hotel, Barcuke told reporters.
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Need a World Cup Room? Try a Slum or Love Hotel
For those who think Rio's hotels seem a tad expensive at the World Cup, there are always alternatives - perhaps a room in a "love hotel" or in a "pacified" slum.
-
Now taking World Cup bookings, Rio's slums
With hotel rooms in perilously short supply and even modest hostels in Rio de Janeiro charging as much as $450 for a bed during the World Cup in Brazil next year, the residents of Rocinha and other favelas, or slums, are making the most of the city's acute shortage of lodging
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Blog: Sidelights at Rio+20
Who says summits are boring and don't make for some fun. It's not always about the punctuation in the outcome draft or the informal informals, as the meetings in the run up to the high level session were called. There's always room for lighter moments. Now China's propaganda machinery is well known. But we had a first-hand experience of it when, u...
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Gunmen take guests hostage at Rio luxury hotel
Gunmen engaged in a shootout with police, took 30 people hostage at a luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.As the fire-fight continued a passer-by was killed as she was getting out of a taxi.But surrounded and pinned down by police, they freed their captives within hours and surrendered to police.Witnesses said the up-market, beachside neighb...
