News The logistics and planning for Rio 2016 involve numbers on an Olympic scale: in the sports events alone, the Games will make use of about 32,000 tennis balls, 400 footballs, 8,400 shuttlecocks, 250 golf carts and 54 boats   In the athletes' village, the largest in Olympic history, fittings will include about 80,000 chairs, 70,000 tables, 29,000 mattresses, 60,000 clothes hangers, 6,000 television sets and 10,000 smartphones In total the Games will require more than 200 kilometres of security fencing; enough to surround Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, the rowing and canoeing venue in southern Rio, 27 times   Go through the keyhole of the largest athletes' village in history Almost 2,000 employees are working in the logistical area of Rio 2016 (Photo: Rio 2016/Gabriel Nascimento) To store all of this material, Rio 2016 is using two warehouses A 15,000 square metre warehouse in Barra da Tijuca in western Rio is being used to assemble and supply the furniture and fittings for the Olympic Village A second, much larger warehouse of 90,000 square metres contains all the equipment needed for the sporting events It is strategically located in Duque de Caxias, near the roads that provide access to the venues At any given time, this warehouse has the capacity to load and unload 120 trucks Nine jet-skis, 14,000 arrows and 7,770kg of horse manure understand the Rio 2016 test events in numbers A workforce of almost 2,000 people is responsible for managing the logistics of the Games, from registering and recording the arrival of the goods to stocking them and organising their final delivery Maurício Gonçalves, the director of logistics at Rio 2016, says: "Our greatest challenge was to plan and implement all the warehouse processes and procedures We had to start from scratch I am very proud of my team " The 54 boats to be used by Rio 2016 are being kept in dry storage (Photo: Rio 2016/Gabriel Nascimento) With less than two months to go until the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on 5 August, there is intense activity at both the warehouses Storage racks as high as 21 metres  – the same as a seven-storey building  – are being constructed to hold all the material that will be needed The hard work will not end with the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games on 18 September From then until December, an estimated 30 million items of all shapes, sizes and weights will be sent back to where they came from for re-use and recycling There may not be any medals to be won, but it is going to be an Olympic-sized job for Maurício Gonçalves and his Rio 2016 crew