Rio de Janeiro is the choice of the IOC to host the 2016 Olympics. Rio de Janeiro won on the third round of voting at the IOC Session in Copenhagen, after Chicago was eliminated in the first round ...

In seeking to host the Summer Olympics, Brazil promised “green games for a blue planet.” It pledged to clean up waterways around future Olympic sites, including a lagoon in front of the ...

Methods We recorded all sports injuries at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics reported by the National Olympic ... Discovery XR656 Advanced Digital Radiography System (GE Healthcare, Brazil) and ...

Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro held the 2016 Games in August ... More than 10 countries have expressed interest in hosting the 2036 Summer Olympics, according to reports, but only six have made ...

stadium in Rio de Janeiro. It will host the upcoming Confederations Cup, the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics Construction is expected to begin in 2014 and will be completed in phases, ...

has hosted the modern Summer Olympics in Athens twice (1986 and 2004). Italy hosted the Summer Games in Rome (1960), Brazil in Rio de Janeiro (2016), China in Beijing (2008), Russia in Moscow ...

This year’s Rio Olympics has the power to remind ... renovations ahead the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Brazil Despite the boost in tourism and the increase in jobs that the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de ...

One year before the Rio 2016 Olympic games, three bodies of water slated to be used for water sports have been found to be dangerously filthy. Scientists have found bacteria and viruses in the ...

The Rio intelligentsia is fascinated by the city’s own poverty, as if the favelas were something Brazil should be proud of, rather than ashamed of. Imagine if the Athens Olympics had highlighted ...