Brazilians Snap Up 2M Tickets for 2016 Rio Games

Brazilians have already bought around two million tickets for next year's Rio Olympics, officials said as the one-year countdown to the 2016 Games began on Wednesday. Of the 7.5 million tickets available for the sporting extravaganza, four million have been allocated for Brazilians and half of these were sold in the first round of sales via the internet. Another one million tickets have already been set aside for foreign buyers, sponsors, and participating federations and Olympic...

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