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The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad (Portuguese: Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August.
- Cycling
The cycling competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio...
- Gymnastics
Qualification was based on the results of the 2015 World...
- Badminton
Riocentro Pavilion 4 was the venue of badminton competition....
- Swimming
Interior view of the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, the temporary...
- 2016 Summer Olympics Medal Table
The following medal table is a list of National Olympic...
- Equestrian
The 2016 event was marked by returning champions in the...
- Field Hockey
Field hockey at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro...
- Bids for The 2016 Summer Olympics
Seven cities submitted bids for 2016 Summer Olympics and...
- Archery
Competition format. A total of 128 athletes compete across...
- Cycling
People's Action Party. The People's Action Party ( PAP) is a major conservative [9] [10] political party of the centre-right [11] in Singapore. It is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in the Parliament of Singapore, alongside the Workers' Party (WP) and the Progress Singapore Party (PSP). [12] [13]
This is a chronological summary of the medal events of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With 306 sets of medals, the games featured 28 Olympic sports, including rugby sevens and golf, which were added to the Olympic program in 2009.
- Tokyo's Bid
- Outlook
- External Links
City selection
The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) set a deadline of June 30, 2006, for cities to submit bids. It decided on August 30, 2006, that Tokyo would be the country's candidate for 2016. The other major internal candidate from Japan was the western city of Fukuoka on the island of Kyūshū. Reportedly, Osaka (2008 Summer Olympics bid), Sapporo (which held the 1972 Winter Olympics), and Nagoya (1988 Summer Olympics bid) also expressed an interest in bidding,
Bid details
Tokyo touted "the most compact and efficient Olympic Games ever" with a dramatic setting on the waterfront, previously an area used primarily for industry and shipping; Tokyo will have a chance to redevelop a rundown area (as London and Barcelona did in previous hostings), revitalizing the waterfront with housing, retail, and entertainment venues, some from land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay. The landfill will be a forest island for use as the site of equestrian, canoeing and other sporting events...
Venues
The Olympic park at the city center was to allow the Olympic experience to "permeate the city without compromising Olympic operations". A new stadium (designed by Tadao Ando) was to be built to seat 100,000, and later pared back to 80,000 to leave a desired "legacy building". The new Olympic Village was to contain five high-rise buildings, each representing one of the Olympic Rings. Primarily lying in two tight clusters of 31 planned venues, 21 already exist and the Japanese will need to buil...
Tokyo's bid was promoted to the Candidate City shortlist in June 2008. Despite Tokyo's many strengths, the Beijing Games will have been held in the region eight years before, as well as Tokyo's own previous hosting in 1964.However, on numerous occasions the Olympics have been held eight years apart on the same continent. From 72% in March 2008, Tok...
Free Magazine 2016 (in Japanese)Main article: 2016 Summer Olympics ticket scandal. On 5 August, the day of the 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, police in Rio de Janeiro arrested two people for attempted illegal resale of hundreds of tickets allocated to the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI).
The United States of America (USA), represented by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from August 5 to 21, 2016. U.S. athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, which they boycotted .
Formerly called. National People's Action. People's Action is a national progressive advocacy and political organization in the United States made up of 40 organizations in 30 states. The group's stated goal is to "build the power of poor and working people, in rural, suburban, and urban areas to win change through issue campaigns and elections."
