The Rio 2016 Olympics’ goal is to put on a Games better than London 2012, Brazil president Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday, according to an O Globo report translated by Xinhua News Agency.
“Your [2012 Games] were very successful,” Rousseff said Wednesday, when she met British Prime Minister David Cameron in Belgium. “Brazil is quite ahead of time, and we aim to put on a monumental party. Let me say that our aim, like all Olympic hosts, is to do it even better.”
Leading into London 2012, British organizers said their goal was not to try to better or even replicate the size and scope of the Beijing 2008 Games.