Three indoor stadiums located in the Barra Olympic Park that hosted various events at the summer games. Arena Carioca 1 – hosted basketball. Arena Carioca 2 – hosted judo and wrestling, as well as boccia at the Summer Paralympics. Arena Carioca 3 – hosted taekwondo and fencing competitions. One of the most notable gold metals of the 2016 games was won in Carioca arena 3. The Judo champion was a Brazilian girl from the fevelas whose name has become a national legend. Raphaela Silva who grew up in Cidade de Deus. An article by the Washington Post recaps the story (paraphrased): Raphaela’s journey to Olympic gold started during the first 8 years of her life, which were spent getting into fights with boys and getting expelled from school. She showed an early aptitude for street soccer and for pipa combat, a kind of aerial martial art in which combatants fly kites from rooftops and try to cut one another’s strings. “We’d pass people selling drugs and trying to recruit kids to be lookouts,” says Rafaela, now 24. “My parents didn’t want that for me.” So, at age 5, they guided her toward judo, partially to give Silva and her sister structure. “Judo has rules,” her sister Raquel Silva told The New York Times earlier this year. “The street doesn’t.” She was lucky that her first sensei, Geraldo Bernardes, had coached Brazilian judokas through four Olympic cycles. “… jumping over walls and climbing trees, gave her natural coordination,” Bernardes says. “The first moment I saw her, I knew I had a diamond in the rough.” Silva’s path to stardom reached a tipping point at the 2012 London Olympics after she was disqualified during the preliminary round for violating a newly instituted ban on moves that target an opponent’s legs. What happened next was far worse. Social media users attacked Silva with racial epithets, a type of abuse that Brazilian police say is becoming more common. “I was very sad because I had lost the fight,” Silva told CBC of her 2012 bout. “So I walked to my room, I found all those insults on social media, they were criticizing me, calling me monkey, so I got really, really upset. I thought about leaving judo.” “Rafaela got depressed,” Raquel Silva told The New York Times. “She watched television all day and cried alone in front of the TV. Our mother cooked her favorite things to cheer her up, but that didn’t work.” Silva took a few months off, but she soon resumed training and went on to become the 2013 world champion. Her objective was to win an Olympic medal and expunge memories of London. She did. The 24 year old won the biggest victory of her life, defeating Mongalia’s champion to claim Brazil’s first gold medal at the Rio Olympics (29). After the games, plans were in place to transform arena 3 into a sports high school after the Games were completed although this never happened. Arenas 1 and 2 were intended to become part of the Olympic Training Center (30).