Olympic organizers are battling to save the $10 billion Games from becoming a fiasco. The games are engulfed in a desperate last-minute building and repair operation as the first of more than 10,000 athletes begin to arrive in Rio. Despite being given seven years to prepare, vital roads, transport and structural work are still to be completed. In contrast, 90 per cent of construction of the venues for the 2012 Games in London was completed with a year to go.
Olympic Games start in Rio on August 5 but venues are far from ready
