Public-use venues

Carioca 3, which hosted the Olympic taekwondo and fencing competitions, was transformed into a state school. The Isabel Salgado Educational Gymnasium (named after one of the greatest Olympic and volleyball athletes in Brazil) is the largest school in the Rio city education network, accommodating approximately 1,000 students and made up of 24 classrooms, a multipurpose room, a support room, educational facilities, a cafeteria, an industrial kitchen, changing rooms and bathrooms, as well as sports facilities with two courts and areas for athletics, badminton, cycling, fencing, Greco-Roman wrestling, chess, volleyball, beach volleyball and table tennis.

Similarly, the Olympic Tennis Centre has opened up its seven outdoor courts for public use in collaboration with the Athlete Connected-Citizen Project. An app has been developed to allow players to reserve courts and find playing partners of a similar level.

The Rio Olympic Arena, which was originally built for the 2007 Pan American Games and hosted the gymnastics events at Rio 2016, has been used as a concert venue both before and after the Olympic Games.

Additionally, the urban infrastructure and transport connections that the Barra Olympic Park enjoys have enabled it to host major non-sport events such as Cirque du Soleil Amaluna in 2017-18 and Rock in Rio in 2017, 2019 and 2022. Rock in Rio is one of the world’s biggest music festivals.

In 2024, the circulation and coexistence area within the Olympic Park, which at Rio 2016 served to connect the sports arenas and included the “Live Site”, a terrace on the shores of Jacarepaguá Lagoon, was transformed into Rita Lee Park. The new natural public park covers 36,000m², with more than 900 trees and 16,000 bushes. It also boasts sports courts, public squares, a renovated skate park, splash pads/a spray pool area and coloured floors. There is also a selection of new urban furniture, such as 465 tables and chairs, 27 children's toys, 14 items of exercise equipment and 14 bicycle racks.