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It is ironic, therefore, that it was the country's preparation to host the World Cup that has mobilised Brazilians.

Zhukov quickly rose through the ranks at the International Olympic Committee, which this year appointed him to an influential role as head of the commission overseeing Beijing's preparation to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, said senior officials had met Thursday morning to discuss security at the Olympics, then added that during a meeting with staffers, President Obama "made it clear that he has the utmost confidence in our close friend and ally, the United Kingdom, as they finalize preparation to host the London Olympics".

Nigeria face Tahiti, Uruguay and Spain in Brazil, which will use the event as preparation to host the 2014 World Cup.

That prospect remains a long way off, and the expensive preparations to host the tournaments in both countries are proceeding.

Earlier on Wednesday, Russian officials had said Blatter's resignation would have no impact on their preparations to host the 2018 World Cup.

But now the complex is beginning its preparations to host the Olympics - a unbelievable turn around for a project that looked utterly doomed less than a decade ago.

Russian officials said the resignation of Fifa president Sepp Blatter would have no impact on their preparations to host the World Cup in 2018 and insisted there could be no question of revisiting the decision to hand Russia the tournament.

Dozens of Nepalese migrant labourers have died in Qatar in recent weeks and thousands more are enduring appalling labour abuses, a Guardian investigation has found, raising serious questions about Qatar's preparations to host the 2022 World Cup.

See articleThe muddy gameSepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, football's governing body, has written to Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, expressing concern over delays in the country's preparations to host the 2014 World Cup.

Markiyan Lubkivskiy, who directed Ukraine's preparations to host Euro 2012 and is now an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian security services, called for legal action in an online post and suggested the video could aid the cause of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.