Megaeventos esportivos e legado para o desenvolvimento local: os Jogos Olímpicos e Paralímpicos Rio 2016 e sua herança para Deodoro e adjacências

Abstract

Mega-events bring with them possibilities for long-term economic, social and environmental development for the territory that hosts them. With the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the city of Rio de Janeiro underwent several interventions in its infrastructure and transport, for example. The qualitative research was carried out focusing on the Olympic facilities in the Deodoro neighborhood, which formed the so-called Deodoro Olympic Complex, with the aim of verifying, based on the perception of the surrounding community, whether the actions taken to hold the Rio Olympic Games 2016 contributed to the local development of the Deodoro neighborhood and surrounding areas. To achieve this, specific objectives were considered: a) to present the legacy proposed by the State and by the organization of the event with the holding of the Games for the Deodoro region; b) record the social and environmental context of the Deodoro neighborhood before the big event; and c) compare, through qualitative research, the planned legacy with the legacy perceived by the local community. Among the possible aspects to be studied, leisure and sporting activities provided by the equipment were the most relevant. Given this delimitation, the legacy in the region of Deodoro and surrounding areas is not perceived as sufficient to meet the population's demand for adequate space for coexistence and recreation. The final product of the research is the elaboration of theory based on thirty-nine semi-structured interviews with members of the local community and analysis of primary data collected in the Games' Legado Notebooks and other official documents.