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Rio De Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes Says He Wants Olympic Golf Course To Be Privately Run

Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes said that the city will look for a private company to run its recently-completed Olympic golf course to "avoid using taxpayer money for the venue, which has become the target of protests," according to David Biller of BLOOMBERG. Paes said that Rio wants to "find an operator in the first half of the year" and is preparing the course for '16, when golf returns to the Olympics after 112 years. The winning bidder will hold a "10-year contract that could be extended for the same period." Paes: "I'm not going to spend city money cutting that grass. If it depends on me, that grass is going to grow high after the Olympics. I would never spend city money taking care of a golf course." The 60M reais ($23M) course, designed by Gil Hanse, "was built with private funds to avoid backlash." That has not "assuaged so-called Occupy Golf activists who this weekend protested the course." Paes said golf is "not popular" in Brazil and, even with planned youth programs on the course, "those frequenting it will be mostly people who already play the sport." The course can also "lure tourists to the city's high-end hotels and restaurants," so they "leave a lot of dollars here," Paes said (BLOOMBERG, 1/26).

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