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Prepare for 2016 Olympics with a Powerball win

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KENTUCKY (WFIE) -

This Saturday's huge Powerball jackpot is $253 million. The cash option for the $253 millionPowerball jackpot is $170.5 million.

If you won the $253 millionPowerball jackpot, you could prepare for the XXXI Olympic Summer Games in 2016.

You could:

  • Provide hotel and airfare for 74,985 of your closest friends to the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro;
  • Take 50,378 of those friends to opening ceremonies, several sporting events and closing ceremonies;
  • Take 1.15 million helicopter tours of Rio de Janeiro's Sugar Loaf Mountain
  • Buy 10.12 million T-shirts to support Team USA.

Tickets for Saturday's Powerball drawing are just $2 each and can be purchased at any of the Kentucky Lottery's draw game retailers.

The drawings take place at 9:58 p.m. CT/9:58 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

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