It would be like a double Fifa World Cup and Olympics because, apart from the main venue for the Games, Kenya would have to build at least six world-class stadiums to host the Olympic football matches alone.
For example, Odebrecht and other firms building the stadiums for the main Olympic Park on a triangle of land jutting into a lagoon south of the city earn the right to develop half the land once the Games end.
Meirelles said that representatives of the International Olympic Committee phoned him to try and convince him to take the post, which will oversee and approve of all investments and projects like stadiums and roads needed in the Olympic Park for 2016.