He said that his country "stopped being a second-class country and definitively joined the level of first-class nations", quoting the World Bank as saying that Brazil would be in 2016 the world's fifth-largest economy. "Nobody doubts our economic and social greatness anymore," the Brazilian president said.
He said that after the victory, the Brazilian people and government would shoulder their responsibilities to organize a spectacular Olympic Games in the seven years to come.
Brazil and South America have never hosted an Olympic Games, the largest sports event on earth.
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