What Brazil's $10 billion Olympic venues look like one year before the games

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The Maracana will host the Opening Ceremony.

In April 2014, a senior Olympic official called Rio de Janeiro's preparations for the 2016 Olympics the "worst ever."

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Sixteen months later, 365 days before the Opening Ceremony, Rio mayor Eduardo Paes announced that all projects were on schedule.

"We are literally making a miracle happen here," he said.

Given what we saw at the Sochi Olympics (where hotels weren't finished by the start of the games) and the 2014 World Cup (where a few stadiums in Brazil barely made it in under the wire), there's still some worry that Rio won't be ready when the games begin a year from now.

The country spent $10.2 billion building and renovating 31 venues for the Olympics, Globo reports, though only $3.8 billion of that was publicly funded, according to the mayor. The games will be split between four clusters: the main hub in Barra (where the Olympic Park will be), Maracana (where the Opening Ceremony will be), Deodoro (the inland hub), and Copacabana (the base for water sports).

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Brazil says the venues will be 100% completed. With a year to go, where's what they look like.