RIO DE JANEIRO — Environmental activists burst into the lobby of a luxury hotel on Rio’s Copacabana Beach where IOC officials were meeting Saturday, protesting against ecological destruction related to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Security guards tried to hem in the small group of activists, but at least two women managed to push their way into the hotel as IOC President Thomas Bach was chairing a meeting of his executive board on another floor. One of the activists, who grabbed a five-ring Olympic flag and tried to wave it, shouted about destruction of a nature preserve in western Rio where the Olympic golf course is being built.

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