Rio will be the first city in South America to hold the Olympics and will be the first city to hold the Summer Olympics in their winter time.
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Richard: London 2012 is all over, what a great success it's been. But already we're looking forward to Rio 2016. So for this week's podcastsinenglish.com we're going to compare London and Rio.
Jackie: London of course is bigger, Richard. It has a population of 12 million whereas Rio only has just over 6.
Richard: Half the size.
Jackie: Half the size. And what's interesting is that London was the first city to host the Olympics, the Summer Olympics, three times.
Richard: ...and Rio will be the first city in South America to hold the Olympics.
Jackie: But also... [both laugh] this is the Summer Olympics, right?
Richard: Yes
Jackie: ...and Rio is in... in Brazil, which is south of the equator.
Richard: Southern Hemisphere.
Jackie: Rio will be the first city to hold the Summer Olympics in their winter time.
Richard: Yes, but even if it's going to be the winter [laughs] the weather in Rio is going to be the same, if not warmer, than London.
Jackie: Yes, in fact the August temperatures for both Rio and London are very similar, mid twenties.
Richard: Mmm. Let's hope the weather is as good as it was in London this year.
Jackie: So Rio, Richard. What do you think of?
Richard: Well, the iconic images of Rio, two for me: Copacabana beach and the Christ the Redeemer statue.
Jackie: *On Sugarloaf Mountain.
Richard: Yes. And London, what about London?
Jackie: Well not nearly so interesting really. There's Big Ben, of course, and um... maybe Tower Bridge?
Richard: The London Eye?
Jackie: Yes, things like that. I think Rio... I don't know, it seems much more exciting. There's the... the huge carnival every year, of course.
Richard: Mardi Gras.
Jackie: Yeah the fantastic carnival, the parade in the streets, the singing, the dancing and all those amazing costumes. It seems a very exciting city.
Richard: London has its carnival as well, of course, the biggest in Europe.
Jackie: Yes
Richard: The Notting Hill Carnival.
Jackie: That's true, that's true. A similar style but much, much smaller. But not just the dancing and the music, the Samba and the Bossa Nova, for me Rio just seems to be so much more exciting. London is flat and on the river Thames, whereas Rio...
Richard: Well, I mentioned the mountain, the Sugarloaf Mountain and it's got beautiful beaches right on the ocean. Oh, it's gorgeous.
Jackie: All the pictures of Rio just make it look absolutely fantastic.
Richard: One thing we haven't mentioned about Rio and London, in fact Brazil and the UK, is football.
Jackie: Both cities, both countries, [are] mad about football.
Richard: One... one more successful than the other, I must admit. But er... yes from the cities, Rio, is where Ronaldo was born...
Jackie: ...and David Beckham was born in London.
Richard: And also the good thing is, we don't have to wait until 2016 for something to be happening in Rio, do we?
Jackie: No, because the 2014 World Cup is taking place there as well.
Together: Let's go to Rio!
* Whoops! The statue is not on Sugarloaf Mountain, it's overlooking the mountain.
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