The legacy of the Rio 2019 Games continues in Brazil. Last mid-January, the courts closed two of the competition sites, the Olympic park of Barra da Tijuca and that of Deodoro. The reason is the lack of security certificates. According to'AFP, they were reopened on Tuesday January 28. In Deodoro, a working-class neighborhood 40 kilometers north of Copacabana, the Brazilian canoe-kayak slalom team was able to resume training. As for the swimming pool, it will be open to the public on Sunday February 2. After the court's decision to close the sites, the municipality filed an appeal and the appeal court authorized their reopening on a provisional basis, while it examined the case in detail before making a final decision. In particular, it was considered that the closure of the sites affected “ the activities of people dependent on their operation, including the military, which regularly uses the Deodoro site. »

