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Rio picks up the torch for the samba Games, but there are shadows in the sunshine

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Saturday, 11 August 2012 (on August 11, 2012)
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As Brazil promises an Olympics like no other, a bribery scandal erupts while the problem of guns and drugs has been shelved rather than solved

Rio de Janeiro's 700m-long Sambadrome promises to be..


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