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Copacabana Stadium
Copacabana Stadium. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Copacabana Stadium, also known as the Beach Volleyball Arena (Portuguese: Arena de Vôlei de Praia), was a temporary stadium located on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that hosted the beach volleyball competition of the 2016 Summer Olympics. It was erected in 2016 specifically for the Olympic Games and was planned to be dismantled after the Games.

It opened on 26 July 2016 and had a seating capacity of 12,000.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.