The largest exhibition and convention center in Latin America, built in 1977, and containing six pavilions, four of which were used as Olympic venues. Pavilion 4 hosted the badminton competitions, Pavilion 3 hosted the Olympic and Paralympic table tennis competitions, and Pavilion 6 hosted the Olympic and Paralympic lifting events, and Pavilion 2 hosted the boxing competitions (34). An article by Sports Illustrated describes the story of a training center in Vidigal fevela which birthed two Brazilian boxers who competed here, BOXING FOR ALL: An education in and out of the ring (paraphrased): …Head left up the main commercial street, around one bend, and you’ll find a hard hairpin turn into a narrow alleyway. Take it, and in 50 or so ascending, cobblestoned meters, opposite graffiti that reads FAITH IN THE CHILDREN OF VIDIGAL and BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD, you’ll find a doorway. Welcome to Todos na Luta. Luta is the Portuguese word for boxing, but it also means struggle, which lends more metaphorical wallop to the name of the club headquartered there: Boxing for All, to be sure, but also Everyone in the Struggle. A war between two drug gangs broke out in 2004 causing most paying customers to stop training here. However the facility stayed open and offered free classes to those who couldn’t afford it.  Several participants, including Borges and Lourenço, who would later compete at in the Rio 2016 games became known as “the bullet-dodging kids” because they continued to attend class during the violence. The traffickers spared the club because, as the administrator explains, “They understood our social mission and never interfered”.  In 2011 the UPP pacified Vidigal. However, the club still struggles financially, “We’ve done this on a shoestring,” Júlia says, “but if a club like ours somehow produces Olympians, we must be doing something right.” (10)