I'm back from Rio after 10 days. Overall the organization was good, the biggest problems I noticed was that after 11pm the public transport wasn't avaible to some areas. The food in the events was also expensive and didn't have many options, except in the tennis complex, but acording to some people that worked in other Olympics (I was with a volunteer and had a chance to talk to many people from the organization), it was a little better than London and on par with most previous games.
Security was great (I was at Penha, a popular neighborhood that is a few kilometers from the Olympic Park for those that don't know, it was very calm and people on the streets said security there improved a lot in the last 5 years, which is a positive change that the games bought to places that had no competitions nor anything related to the games), the Olympic Boulevard and the Olympic Park are beautiful places, with massive improvements over what they used to be, people were very receptive, I didn't have to wait for too long in lines (I know some events had long lines, but most were fine) and traffic was good overall.
It was nice to see that a big portion population was proud of the city and that were some clear improvements, although there are still noticeable social disparities between rich and poor regions in the city.
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