Olympics concerns after Brazil blackout

Reported by msnbc.com on Friday, 13 November 2009 (on November 13, 2009)

Organizers of the 2016 Olympics are pitching host city Rio de Janeiro as a potential "power island" immune from blackouts like the one that left 60 million Brazilians in the dark.

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