News With less than nine months until the Rio 2016 Olympic Games begin, construction of the new sports venues is in the home straight A week after the Rio city government declared three more facilities ready, it has released a time-lapse video showing progress at the two main venue clusters and athletes’ village When compared to a similar video released in July, it is clear that work at Barra Olympic Park is nearing completion, with the three Carioca Arenas (all more than 95 per cent complete), the Future Arena (100 per cent), the Olympic Aquatics Stadium (96 per cent) and International Broadcast Centre (100 per cent) highlighted At Deodoro Olympic Park, the second largest venue cluster, the video shows the completed canoe slalom course, which will host the sport’s test event this week, and the finished BMX track, which hosted its test event last month The nearby mountain bike course is also ready and was warmly praised by riders after its test event Find out which sports will take place where with our venues mapThe video ends with footage of the Olympic and Paralympic Village, which will host about 15,000 of the world’s top athletes next year, and is now 97 per cent complete Related stories3-D video shows how Barra Olympic Park will be during the GamesNew Olympic golf course for Rio 2016 is revealed In homage to Brazilian flag, Rio 2016 hockey pitches unveiledTennis, golf and hockey among highlights as video shows construction progress