new mondo track in the Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, rio de janeiro

Eindelijk is het zo ver. In ieder geval is nu (concreet) een datum gezet. Na tijden van misschien, wellicht of waarschijnlijk. Iedere keer zat er iets tegen. Of werkte het voetbal niet mee. Maar het stadion lijkt er nu klaar voor. De nieuwe Mondo atletiekbaan in het Engenhao stadion.

modified from inside the games:
The laying of the Rio 2016 athletics track in the Olympic stadium – delayed by renovations in the trouble-dogged arena – will take place in February, in good time for the Olympic and Paralympic Test events scheduled for May.
“We are in the process of delivering the material and we expect to start installation at the beginning of February,” Andrea Vallauri, head of Mondo’s Sports Division, told insidethegames.“Everything should be completed by the end of March in time for the Test event planned for the beginning of May.That is a fixed point.” 

Vallauri, who has just returned from a site visit, insists that the timing for the track is on track, however.“It’s okay for us,” he said.“The only thing is that in Brazil the priority is football, unfortunately."In the Olympic stadium we have to work round the football season and wait until there is a break.“We are quite confident all will be finished on time – unless it rains for two months."

The athletics Test event for the Olympics is scheduled to be the Ibero-American Championships from May 14 until 16.The Paralympic Test event will follow within a week. Mondo will lay 16 thousand m2 of Mondotrack WS, the entire surface of the main track and the warm-up tracks, in conjunction with its Brazilian partner Playpiso
“It is essential that you have a strong local partnership because of the regulations in Brazil – you have to follow the rules, and it’s okay.“We have a partnership with our dealiers there which goes back more than 30 years. 

The authorities made some modification to the roof of the stadium.“They will also change some things internally.“But the renovation has always been a little bit affected by the fact that the stadium is leased to a football club. “So it was a little bit logistically complicated. But now it’s OK because the football has a break and things can move very, very fast.”