Brazil will use Crystal Palace National Sports Centre as their training base for the 2012 Olympics.
The contract between the Brazil Olympic Committee and Greenwich Leisure (GLL) was agreed yesterday with the venue also acting as team headquarters in the run-up to and during the Olympics from July 10 to August 13 next year.
It is the first time Brazil has used this type of preparation base and further camps are also being planned between GLL and the Brazilian Olympic Committee for beyond 2012 as they prepare to host the 2016 Games.
Carlos Nuzman, president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and the Rio 2016 Organising Committee, said: "We are confident that Crystal Palace National Sports Centre will offer the best possible training and preparation environment for our athletes, enabling them to achieve the best possible sporting results."
London Mayor Boris Johnson added: "I can assure Team Brazil that it will receive the warmest of welcomes from Londoners next summer and the recently refurbished centre provides perfect training facilities for its members to be in top condition to challenge the world's best when the London Games open next year."
