Olympic course work finally underway

WORK has finally begun on the 2016 Olympic golf course after a series of delays amid a legal dispute over the ownership of the site.

The organising committee for the Rio de Janeiro games said yesterday that clearing work had begun to remove “non-native vegetation” after a permit was issued by the city. Construction is set to begin next month and the head of the organising committee said the course would be ready for a test event in 2015.

The move will come as a relief to the International Olympic Committee, even though it has repeatedly downplayed the ongoing legal dispute.

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