Brazil President and Rio De Janeiro

wheelchair rugby: The daily tales of woe are overshadowing the buildup to the first Games to be staged in South America, according to The Guardian. Later this month, Rio will host test events for diving, taekwondo, race walk and wheelchair rugby, but these will be dwarfed by an anti-Zika mega-operation called for on the 13th by Brazil president, Dilma Rousseff. But with six months to go until Rio de Janeiro hosts the next Olympics, the sense of gloom is plumbing new depths as the country struggles with a Zika epidemic and a cocktail of political and economic woes. In a televised address to the nation on Wednesday, the president described the fight against the virus as a battle for life and said she would use the armed forces, public officials and every necessary financial and technological resource to eradicate mosquito breeding grounds. At Fort Duque de Caxias, close to Copacabana beach, troops pour chlorine into water tanks and clear gutters where larvae might be found. Preparations are already under way at military facilities across the nation. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.