Venue Press Operations

Raquel Cavaco Nunes Venue Press and Photo Operations Manager

Press Operations Briefing | Oct 2015 Services and facilities at competition venues

• Venue Media Centre (VMC) • Press tribunes (tabled and non-tabled) • Mixed zone • Press conference room • Photo positions • Media lounge Venue Media Centre (VMC)

Working days Olympic Games -3 days / +1 day

Working hours Non-competition days 9.00am – 6.00pm Olympic Games training -1h / +1h Olympic Games competition -3h / +4h

Venue Media Centre (VMC)

• Each workroom desk equipped with cabled internet and power outlets • Wi-fi connectivity • TVs with multi-venue Olympic feed • Info+ terminals and printers • myPrint service • Lockers • Help desk, technology and language service support Press tribunes

Tabled • Cabled internet and wi-fi connectivity • Shared TV with venue feed (every 3 seats) • CIS at athletics • Results delivery

Non-tabled • Cabled internet in some of the seats • Wi-fi connectivity Mixed zone

• Feed of interviews of athletes by Olympic News Channel (front position in broadcasters’ mixed zone) on CATV • TVs with Olympic feed • Wi-fi connectivity • CIS and Info+ terminals in some venues (athletics, artistic gymnastics and swimming) Press conference room

• Post-competition press conferences with

the medallists

• Simultaneous interpretation: athletics, basketball (finals), artistic gymnastics and swimming • Consecutive interpretation: all other venues

• Wi-fi connectivity Media lounges

• Drinks, hot and cold meals

• Vending machines • TV with Olympic feed • Wi-fi connectivity • Coffee and water available free of charge in the VMC Venue Media Centre hybrid

• New concept of combined space for workroom and press conference area for some venues

ENG and photo platform Athletes’ stage Venue Media Centre hybrid

Final list of venues with Venue Media Centre hybrid:

• (judo, wrestling, boccia) • Beach Volleyball Arena • (fencing, taekwondo, Paralympic • judo) • Olympic Shooting Centre • Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre (diving, synchronised • Olympic BMX Centre swimming) • Whitewater Stadium • (cycling time-trial, athletics race walk, • Olympic and Paralympic Village Paralympic cycling road) • Pavilion 2 (weightlifting, powerlifting) • Riocentro Pavilion 3 (table tennis, Paralympic table tennis) • Riocentro Pavilion 4 (badminton) Olympic Village – Venue Media Centre

• Open from 24 July until 21 August 2016 (except on ceremony days), from 9.00am to 9.00pm • Distribution of up to 200 day passes for the Olympic Village Plaza at a time (one-in, one-out basis) • Combined workroom and press conference area (hybrid VMC) • Two interview rooms available for individual athlete interviews Media tours at the Olympic Village

• Two official media tours of the Olympic Village • 2 and 4 August 2016 • Organised by the IOC, OBS and Press Operations • Only opportunity for the media to access the Olympic Village residential zone • Media that intend to participate should register at the MPC and IBC main help desks Training venues

• Eight stand-alone training venues with multi-sport for Olympic Games • All sessions open to media unless otherwise communicated • Viewing and interviewing areas • No dedicated Press Ops staff • Transport on demand from MPC Thank you rio2016.com TM © Rio 2016 | All rights reserved.