LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) – IOC President Thomas Bach will make a three-day trip to Brazil this month to check on final preparations for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and meet with acting President Michel Temer.
The International Olympic Committee said Wednesday that Bach would visit Brazil from June 14-16, less than two months before the opening ceremony of South America’s first games on Aug. 5.
Bach will spend the first two days in Rio as part of an IOC “project review” of Olympic preparations, which have been hit by budget cuts, concerns over the Zika virus, delayed completion of the velodrome, and Brazil’s political and economic crisis.
Bach will then travel to Brasilia on June 16 for talks with Temer, who took over as president last month after Dilma Rousseff was suspended pending a Senate impeachment trial.