Utilising Brazil’s Incentive for Sport Law

In a development that shows both the growing wave of support for Olympic sports in Brazil as well as an important source of investment for sporting projects across the country, the Minas Tennis Club in Belo Horizonte has just finalised two new funding arrangements involving the Brazilian Ministry of Sport’s “Incentive for Sport Law”.

Non-Cup sport projects booming across Brazil

Highlighting once again the sheer spread of sporting infrastructure development occurring right around Brazil, a report this week has detailed how over R$250 million that is not directly linked to World Cup 2014 preparations is being spent on other facilities across the country.

Olympic sport investment to create opportunities

The Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC) has opened a new source of opportunities in the country´s sport industry by announcing its intention to expand the range of sporting disciplines that Brazil will be able to compete for medals in by Rio 2016. Over the past few Olympics Brazil has averaged medals in around eight sports and the aim is to expand this to 13 for South America´s first ever Olympic Games.

Final 2014 stadium tender hits the streets

The construction tender for the only publicly managed World Cup 2014 stadium project yet to go through the process has been finalised, with the “Stadium of the Dunes” in Natal now set to leave the paper within the next five months.

Sao Paulo´s Cup troubles continue

Following a few weeks of added hope but even more uncertainty in relation to Sao Paulo city´s role in the 2014 World Cup, the latest news sees mega-club Corinthians leading a new push for the city to host the opening ceremony.

Portal to the Amazon, Manaus to receive a sporting overhaul

The latest in this site's series of reports on 2014 World Cup host cities heads to the Amazon and one of the region´s main cities, Manaus, capital of Brazil´s largest state by area, Amazonas.

2014 Cup & 2016 Olympics trade mission launched

The official program has been launched for the November 21-26 Sporting Events Business Mission to Brazil. This mission and ongoing business activities in Brazil are being managed by the Australian International Sporting Events Secretariat (AISES), Austrade and their program partners, and will include a recognised sports/events leader.

The mission will target business opportunities arising from the 2014 Football World Cup and the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the primary themes to be:

- Planning and delivery of the forthcoming major sport events, including venue, event and precinct infrastructure/design, planning, project management through to overlay implementation.

- Sport development, athletes’ performance and participation; targeting opportunities for key sports codes and sport/athletes’ performance

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Sport & Business - Australia, the sporting country

By Marco Aurelio Klein (Brazilian Ministry of Sport –High Performance Director)

Today, when you think of high performance sport you think of Australia. When planning a bid for a major event you think of Australia.