People are seen during the inauguration ceremony of the Live Site at the 2016 Rio Olympics park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 11, 2016. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - When Rio opened its Olympic Park this month there was one thing conspicuously absent around the venues, walkways and public areas where visitors will gather to watch 16 sports in August: trees.
The host city and AECOM, the UK-based company that designed what is being dubbed "the heart of the games," promised a verdant area worthy of the name Park. The reality is a concrete jungle.
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