2016 Summer Olympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, and commonly known as Rio 2016, are a major international multi-sport event that will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 5 to August 21, 2016. Record numbers of countries and sets of medals are awaiting in the games. More than 10,500 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), including from Kosovo and South Sudan for the first time, will take part in this sporting event. With 306 sets of medals, the games will feature 28 Olympic sports — including rugby sevens and golf, which were added by the International Olympic Committee in 2009. These sporting events will take place on 33 venues in the host city and additionally on 5 venues in the cities of São Paulo (Brazil's largest city), Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Brasília (Brazil's capital), and Manaus.

The host city of Rio de Janeiro was announced at the 121st IOC Session held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009. The other finalists were Madrid, Spain; Chicago, United States; and Tokyo, Japan. Rio will become the first South American city to host the Summer Olympics, the second city in Latin America to host the event after Mexico City in 1968, and the first since 2000 in the Southern Hemisphere. This will be the third time the Summer Olympics are held in a developing country, after the 1968 Games in Mexico and the 1988 Games in South Korea.

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British Paralympian, 35, vanishes while on holiday in Las Vegas and has been missing for ...

The Daily Mail 28 Apr 2025
But the athlete from Rugby, Warwickshire, who represented Team GB at the London 2012 Paralympics and Rio 2016, has not been heard from since April 16 - nearly two weeks ago.
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Neeraj to Dalilah, finding ways to stay motivated

Hindustan Times 27 Apr 2025
Dalilah Muhammad has won back-to-back Olympic medals in Rio and Tokyo ... For Dalilah Muhammad, the 2016 Rio Olympics 400m hurdles champion, motivation came from humility ... medals and the Rio gold.
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Bangladesh Olympic complex agreed

Inside The Games 27 Apr 2025
Construction could start as soon as June this year ... GETTY IMAGES ... Ruman Shana competing for Bangladesh ... A notable exception was Siddikur Rahman, who became the first Bangladeshi athlete to qualify directly for the Olympics in golf at Rio 2016 ... ....
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Finding ‘balance’ with Simone Biles wasn’t always easy, longtime coach reveals

Usatoday 27 Apr 2025
Biles’ coach from age 7 through her four-gold-medal performance at the 2016 Rio Olympics remembers her as one of her more challenging pupils ... Overcoming 'the twisties' in 2016.
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Inside the dirtiest race in Olympic history: ‘It wasn’t fair. I wasn’t on a level playing field’

The Observer 27 Apr 2025
In December 2016, ... Like Dobriskey, Rowbury’s career ended in disappointment, after her seventh place finish in Beijing and sixth (she thought) in London was followed by a gutting fourth in Rio in 2016.
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Olympians Aly Raisman and Simone Biles reunite at star-studded Time100 event

Sportingnews 26 Apr 2025
On Thursday, April 24, some of the world’s greatest leaders, athletes, and celebrities came together for the 2025 Time100 Gala in New York, New York ... women’s gymnastics team during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Read More! ... .
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CTTA targets LA28 with new leadership

Inside The Games 26 Apr 2025
Former Olympic champion Wang Liqin has taken over as head of the Chinese Table Tennis Association this week ... My love for table tennis will never change." ... As head coach of China's national team, China secured four gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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MLB stars: Uncertainty for LA28

Inside The Games 26 Apr 2025
the participation of the Major League Baseball players ... Dodger Stadium hosts the biggest games on the planet and will do an excellent job in 2028 ... GETTY IMAGES ... Baseball was also not part of Paris 2024, as was the case in London 2012 and Rio 2016 ... ⚾ ... ....
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Muhammad in awe at Kipyegon’s ‘Breaking 4’

Taipei Times 25 Apr 2025
Muhammad, who won gold in the 400m hurdles at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, followed by gold (4x400m relay) and silver (400m hurdles) at the Tokyo Games in 2021, said the World Athletics ...
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Will Jacob Kiplimo be the first to run a marathon in less than two hours?

Yahoo Daily News 25 Apr 2025
Kiplimo was regarded as a superstar in waiting even before he competed over 5,000m as a 15-year-old prodigy at the 2016 Rio Olympics ... A few years later Kiplimo was spotted and brought to Italy to train for the 2016 Olympics.
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LOA assembly looks to future

Inside The Games 25 Apr 2025
The event was attended by legendary figures such as Romas Ubartas, first Olympic champion of independent Lithuania, and athletes from more recent times like rower Saulius Ritteris, silver medallist in Rio 2016 and current president of the LOA ... LTOK.
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ECNS 25 Apr 2025
1. China, Kenya elevate ties as Xi, Ruto hold talks ... Xi held talks with Ruto, who is on a state visit to China, in Beijing on Thursday. (Xinhua/Yue Yuewei). 2 ... (Photo ... 3 ... 4 ... China's national team swept four gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics guided by him.
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Adidas and Puma threatening to leave Nike behind in ‘super shoe’ battle

Yahoo Daily News 25 Apr 2025
And then there is of course Nike, inventors of the first carbon-reinforced super shoes which swept the Rio Olympics in 2016, and whose Alphafly 3 model was worn by both Kelvin Kiptum and Ruth ...
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Adidas and Puma threatening to leave Nike behind in ‘super shoe’ race

The Daily Telegraph 25 Apr 2025
And then there is of course Nike, inventors of the first carbon-reinforced super shoes which swept the Rio Olympics in 2016, and whose Alphafly 3 model was worn by both Kelvin Kiptum and Ruth ...
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Parents of Olympian, 24, who took her life the day after the Tokyo Games give ...

The Daily Mail 24 Apr 2025
... and another athlete in the lead-up to the Rio Games ... Podmore competed in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio after picking up silver and bronze medals in the junior world championships in Astana in 2015.
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