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Brazil Olympic Team’s US Recruit

By Jayme Monsanto, Senior Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO - After last week's announcement of Rudolph Giuliani being called in to help "clean up" the Cidade Maravilhosa ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, Rio de Janeiro now enlisted another American to prepare itself for the Olympics.

The Brazilian Olympics Committee (COB) has hired Steve Roush, ex-Chief of Sport Performance of the United States Olympics Committee (USOC) to help plan the on-field campaign of Brazil in both the London-2012 and Rio-2016 Olympic Games.

The American led Team USA in the Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 . . .

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