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RIO DE JANEIRO. — Blocked toilets, dangerous wiring and other problems in Rio’s Olympic Village will be resolved by the end of the week, Brazilian organizers said on Monday as new reports of glitches emerged. A day after the Australian Olympic delegation refused to move into the apartment complex in western Rio, Brazilian organizing committee spokesman Mario Andrada promised a solution.

“We have 630 men working to fix the problems at the Olympic Village,” Andrada said in comments tweeted by the government’s Olympic account. “They should complete the impeccable handover of the Village by the end of the week, probably by Thursday,” he said.

This indicated a longer timetable than suggested by the honorary mayor of the Village, former Brazilian Olympian Janeth Arcain, who said on Sunday that the work would take only 48 hours. — AFP.