Brazil Olympics, a challenging Project?

I am Brazilian and I'm living in Sao Paulo.

This format created by the International Olympic Committee to transfer the Games to different places every time has demonstrate one of the primary and serious errors of theories and Project Management practices.

After so many this practice which are actual studies of the event and the next decade and what were the concrete results of benefits? What places did not materialize and which the worst? We note that there is the famous "lessons learned".

This model serves the representatives concerned that recent history has shown undue financial fraud and favoritism. In Brazil too is no different. See the operation Wash the Federal Police of Brazil Jet and embezzlement in the construction of Maracana and the construction of all works, including the Olympic Village.

The model of Olympic Games should be rethought and so not be building new arenas every 4 years. The best would be to elect up to four places in the world and build permanent arenas interlando Olympics and World Cup in these facilities. The result would cover the maintenance of these and redistribute the nations in the form of effective social projects of the sport. It could be these arenas being built by a global consortium with large investments of all nations and their relative shares of the actual outcome of events.

It seems to me a more consistent design model with good global management practices. effective lessons to improve future projects continuously, since they are projects of the same nature and each cycle time.

Best Regards,

Otamilo Cintra de Araujo

On the contrary, moving the Olympic games create opportunity all around the planet.

Help build sporting infrastructure, that in most case would not be build. We had the Olympic in Montreal in 1976 and most of the infrastructure is still being use.

I think there challenge is more to have a different way of attributing the games. Could be to have a certain level of infrastructure in place before putting a candidacy to be hosting Olympic.

And maybe part would be to have much more supervision on the progress of construction, clear rule that would permit to cancel/transfert the games to an other location if thing are not in place at certain key moment.

In the end any major public infrastructure project is a major challenge. And it is seen has a potential place for business by many not so clean entrepreneurs.

We had our share for the Montreal Olympic.

I have had several opportunities to both observe multiple Olympics and be involved indirectly with the host committee. There are several project related issues that I have observed.

1. The IOC should not act as the PMO they frequently are the cause of delays and overages do to ever evolving list of last minute requirements and the bane of a PM delays in decision making. They also wreak havoc on the local neighborhoods, for example wanting Washington State to rename the Olympic Mountain range so as not to detract from the Vancouver Games, (one of many examples).

2. It is fairly obvious lessons learned are not shared as the same issues keep popping up over and over, AND over again.

3. Politics should be left out of many levels of the games. This to not only detracts from the games itself, but also affects every other aspect from choosing the location, to sponsorships and sports events, which also drives up the costs.

4. Finally, the legacy once the games are over has not been that stellar. Countries spend millions on venues and many within one to three years is; they are abandoned to become a blight on the former host city.

I used to be a fan of the Olympics when the athletes were amateurs (like the first Olympians), however now that most of them are professionals or semi-professional I can watch the same athletes compete on TV almost anytime.I don't consider myself an activist, but all of the money that is spent could actually be put to better use.

http://g1.globo.com/globo-news/globo-news-...mpiada/5230073/

Andrew Zimbalist, an economist, says in this video that hardly any nation can prestige and benefits with this event format. This report says that this model is doomed, so a country with so many needs could never venture in this project. This should only be from the shady deals made to elect Rio de Janeiro to host the Olympics in 2016, as indicated in some investigative reporting. All construction in Brazil is permeated by corruption and embezzlement, a huge injury for several Brazilian generations.

Is spent 45 billion dollars to meet all the requirements of the IOC in all Nives and the estimated revenue will not reach the value of 5 billion so 95% loss. It is the worst investment in the world in relation to return so they could have invested that money directly in direct works to serve: hospitals, schools, univerdades and many other great need and urgency.

Brazil was poorer with these megalomaniac spending to meet a usurper political class of public money.

On the contrary, moving the Olympic games create opportunity all around the planet.

Help build sporting infrastructure, that in most case would not be build. We had the Olympic in Montreal in 1976 and most of the infrastructure is still being use.

I think there challenge is more to have a different way of attributing the games. Could be to have a certain level of infrastructure in place before putting a candidacy to be hosting Olympic.

And maybe part would be to have much more supervision on the progress of construction, clear rule that would permit to cancel/transfert the games to an other location if thing are not in place at certain key moment.

In the end any major public infrastructure project is a major challenge. And it is seen has a potential place for business by many not so clean entrepreneurs.

We had our share for the Montreal Olympic.