Revellers of Portela samba school perform on
the second night of Rio's Carnival at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
early on February 28, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Vanderlei ALMEIDA
Rio de Janeiro’s carnival
crowned a champion of its elite samba school parade on Wednesday, capping
festivities marred by two accidents that injured more than 30 people.
By winning the carnival’s
headline event, the Portela samba school ended a 33-year losing streak, nabbing
the crown for the 22nd time.
Although it is the most
successful school in carnival history, it has not won since 1984, the year the
Sambodromo — the elongated stadium that hosts the championship parade — was
inaugurated.
The school, which was
founded in 1923, represents the Madureira neighborhood in Rio’s north,
considered to be the cradle of samba. Its entry was based on the theme of
rivers and man’s relationship to water.
The sparkling costumes,
near-naked dancers and pulsating beats provided Brazilians with an escape from
the worst recession in a century and a particularly ugly year in the country’s
corruption-stained politics.
But the revelry was marred
by mayhem on Tuesday when a float became involved in a freak accident for the
second time in two nights.
Twelve people were injured
when the top level of an elaborate three-story float collapsed under the weight
of the brightly costumed dancers atop it, crashing onto the crowded platform
below.
Another float swerved into
a crowd and injured 20 people late Sunday, during the championship’s opening
night.
City transport officials
have vowed to step up safety checks next year.
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