Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Summer
Olympics officially known
as the Games of the XXXI
Olympiad and commonly known
as Rio 2016, is a major
international multi-sport event in the tradition
of the Olympic Games as governed by
the International
Olympic Committee, being held in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Opening rounds in certain events began on 3 August 2016 — two days
before the opening ceremony — and the Games is formally running from
5 August to 21 August 2016.
More
than 11,000 athletes from 206 National
Olympic Committees (NOCs),
including first time entrants Kosovo and South Sudan, are
taking part.With 306 sets of
medals, the games features 28 Olympic sports, including golf, which were added by the International
Olympic Committee in
2009. These sporting events are taking place at 33 venues in the host city as
well as at five venues in the cities of São Paulo (Brazil's
largest city), Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Brasília (Brazil's
capital), and Manaus.
These
are the first Summer Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Thomas Bach. The host city of Rio de Janeiro was announced at
the 121st IOC Session held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October
2009. Rio became the first South American city to host the Summer Olympics.
These are the first games to be held in a Portuguese-speaking country, the
first to be held entirely during the winter (the 2000 games began on
15 September but continued past the spring equinox), the first
since1968 to be held in
Latin America, and the first since2000 (and third
overall) to be held in the Southern Hemisphere.
Good luck to our Ukrainian sportsmen!
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