translated by Martina Ferlisi
Distances
Rua da Gloria – Olympic Park Barra da Tijuca
35,5 km
Olympic Park Barra da Tijuca – Main Press Center
1,6 km
Main Press Center- Olympic Village
7,3 km
Olympic Village – Olympic Stadium João Havelange (Engenhhão)
24, 4 km
Engenhao perimeter
1,98 km
Average time
Rua da Gloria – Parco Olimpico Barra da Tijuca
2 hours
Olympic Park Barra da Tijuca – Main Press Center
20 minutes
Main Press Center- Olympic Village
20 minutes
Olympic Village – Olympic Stadium João Havelange (Engenhhão)
from 1 to 3 hours
Engenhao perimeter
20 minutes abundant.
Transports
Taxi, Uber, Subway, BRT, Supervia Train, special buses, buses.
Uber saves your live, but on the subway and on the BRT, pressed like sardines you have so much fun! Choirs, singing, dancing, drivers ready for Formula 1. You can not really say that the Carioca are indifferent to the Paralympics. Rather. They are participating en masse, whole families, whole classes, school groups, mixed groups and condominiums. And they are beautiful, they make a lot of noise.
And there, you can often listen them to tell each other stories of Paralympic athletes.
Yesterday my seatmate told me: “there is a runner, a good one. It was a former Formula One pilot. Such Alex Zanardi, I do not know if you know him…. ”
About swimmers
Yesterday night, the Uber driver who finally brought me home, told me another story, that of the Brazilian swimmer Susana Ribeiro, who has a degenerative disease, which is much worse from London 2012, and yesterday in 200 freestyle withdrew from the competition, immediately in the first tournament.
Meanwhile, the first Italian medal comes from swimming: Francesco Bettella won the silver medal in the 100 meters backstroke S1.
And Susana tonight is in competition for the gold medal in the 200m medley.
Her story has been told in the movie Paratodos, a recent Brazilian movie that tells the story of six of the main local Paralympic athletes. It is on Netflix, you should see it before you can!
Maybe while you are waiting for us to cover the distances, these distances, and we sit down to write again.