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Brazil will shine at safe 2016 Games: Lula.


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RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil
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: Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday his country would seek to thrive in hosting a safe 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

"Brazil is not going to produce Games so that the Eoe1/4Y[pounds sterling]gringoEoe1/4ao (foreigner) can come here and run off with our medals. We are going to organize the Games and prepare ourselves as never before to win medals," insisted Lula, who added that he would take "care" to see Rio cleaned up its violent image.

In order to do so the president said "it is important to have a strategy." He promised the government would help deliver one as he made a visit to the Mangueira favela favela

In Brazil, a slum or shantytown. A favela comes into being when squatters occupy vacant land at the edge of a city and construct shanties of salvaged or stolen materials.
 or shanty town at Tijuca north of Rio to encourage youngsters to take up sporting activities to ensure Brazilian youth are competitive.

At last year s Beijing Games the Brazilians, for their entire prowess at football and their 195 million populations, could only manage to garner 15 medals, three of them gold, in placing 23rd overall.

Lula forecast that by 2016 Brazil would have "an enormous quantity of athletes" that would make the Olympic grade and fight for medals "which we in Brazil want to win by the bucket load."

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