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By Nicola Heath for Return Ticket

Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic legacy is social inequality, decaying stadia and a defunct cable car

Red cable cars travel over Complex Alemão, which is made up of 13 shantytown favelas, in 2013. (Viviane Moos/Corbis via Getty Images)

In the hills of Rio de Janeiro's Complexo do Alemão stands a cable car that once ferried passengers from the favela to the city. It cut a trip that originally took hours down to just 16 minutes.

Now, it sits disused and decaying, useful only as a symbol of the massive social inequality that besets Brazil's second largest city.

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