(14 Aug 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of news conference
2. Various Carlos Arthur Nuzman, president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and president of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Organising Committee, speaking at podium
3. Cutaway of journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Carlos Arthur Nuzman, Brazilian Olympic Committee President:
"I think the most important (thing is) what happens now, after the Pan-American games that finished last year. This is a major point, because the investment of the government, building new venues, investing in the infrastructure of the city, they bring a strong capacity for Rio to show to the world that they are on the way to host the Olympic-Paralympic games."
5. Journalists watching video wall with various footage of Rio
6. Mid of people watching video
7. Pan of people watching video wall showing logo reading: "Rio 2016"
STORYLINE
Behind the scenes at the Beijing Games, a furious competition is being waged for an Olympic prize with (b) billions of dollars and global prestige at stake.
For Rio de Janeiro and its three rivals, Beijing is providing the stage to ramp up their campaigns to host the Summer Games of 2016.
Rio - which is vying with Tokyo, Japan, Madrid, Spain and Chicago, United States - is using the occasion to launch international promotion efforts and meet with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voters who will decide the contest 19 months from now.
This is the first chance for the four cities to take their case to international officials since being chosen as bid finalists in June.
It is a key phase in the race, which will culminate with a secret ballot on October 2, 2009, at the IOC general assembly in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos Arthur Nuzman is spearheading the campaign to bring the Summer Olympics to Brazil for the first time.
Nuzman said that after Brazil hosted the Pan-American games last year, his country has the capacity to host the 2016 Olympic Games.
"The investment of the government, building new venues, investing in the infrastructure of the city, they bring a strong capacity for Rio to show to the world that they are on the way to host the Olympic-Paralympic games," Nuzman told AP Television following a news conference where he unveiled Rio's Olympic bid to the media.
Nuzman and other Brazilian officials have have witnessed the spectacular opening ceremony, attended various sports events and observed the logistical workings of China's mammoth Olympic project.
But the most valuable part of his mission may be the contacts with IOC members, who have been barred from visiting bid cities ever since the Salt Lake City scandal of 1999.
The scandal led to the ouster of 10 IOC members in 1998 and 1999 for accepting cash, gifts and other inducements by leaders of the winning bid for the 2002 Winter Games.
The IOC implemented a series of reforms, including the ban on visits by members to bid cities and strict controls on lobbying.
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