Ticket prices for the opening ceremony ranged from about $63 to $1,400. Rio’s poor watch Olympic opening from rooftops of slumRio De Janeiro – In the hills that hug Maracana Stadium, many Brazilians saw the flash and glitz of the opening ceremony for the Olympics from rooftops with exposed wiring and water pipes, amid trash-filled streets separated from the spectacle by a highway and train tracks. “But those prices are impossible for us.”Prado and her family invited Araujo and others to gather to watch the ceremony from a distance. “But at least I can watch it from here, with this view and my loved ones.” “The poor, we don’t really get to experience the Olympics.

Source: Manila Bulletin August 06, 2016 16:07 UTC