China will send 416 athletes, including 35 Olympic champions, to the upcoming Rio Olympic Games as the Chinese delegation was unveiled at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday.
The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) has taken the unusual step of hiring its own private security firm for next month's Olympic Games, according to media reports.
Brazil's police broke up on Thursday a gang of ticket touts reselling admissions to the Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro.
According to Rio de Janeiro's mayor's office, the best way to pay for transport is through the multimodal Olympic card known as the RioCard. Cards can be ordered online at the website www. riocard.com/jogosrio2016 but can only be delivered within Brazil.
Construction work on Rio's Olympic Park has reached 99% completion as the city finalizes preparations for the first Olympic Games in South America.
In 2009, when Rio de Janeiro won the right to host the 2016 Olympic Games — beating out Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago — Brazil was flying high. Although it had not escaped the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, it had suffered less economic damage, and had come back more quickly, than other countries, including the United States. With the economy booming, the federal government felt so flush that its popular president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, had instituted a series of expensive social programs that helped push millions of poor Brazilians toward a better life. The Economist magazine predicted that Brazil would soon be the world’s fifth-largest economy, leapfrogging Britain and France.
Rio de Janeiro's interim governor Francisco Dornelles admitted Monday that the Olympic Games could be a "big failure" if there are no appropriate measures taken in regards to security and transport during the Games.
As the Olympic movement gears up for the historic Rio Summer Olympics, refugee children running alongside Greek youth and Olympic medalists sent on Wednesday a strong message for peace across the world from the center of Athens.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach described the Rio Olympic village as "one of the most beautiful" he had seen during Wednesday unveiling of the 835 million US-dollar complex.
The Rio 2016 organizing committee revealed the official slogan for the first Olympic and Paralympic Games in South America: "A New World" , meanwhile the Olympic medals were also unveiled on Tuesday, 52 days from the start of the Rio Olympic Games.
Team China unveiled its uniform for the upcoming Rio Olympic Games here on Tuesday, featuring a patriotic palette of red and yellow.
Unlike the football World Cup in Brazil two years ago, the Rio Olympics have mostly escaped controversy about venue delays.
Rio de Janeiro is "ready to deliver history" when it becomes the first South American country to host the Olympic Games in August, Rio 2016 president Carlos Nuzman said on Wednesday.
Brazilian volleyball legend Giovane Gavio was one of the protagonists at the start of the journey of the Olympic Flame that will be burning for the historic 2016 Rio Summer Olympics at the birthplace of the Games on Thursday.
Rio 2016 President Carlos Nuzman has vowed organizers will not become complacent despite declaring the city "ready" for this year's Olympic Games.
The Brazilian government is highly concerned with low ticket sales ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, with only five months to go before the opening of the largest sporting event in the world, the country's interim Minister of Sports, Ricardo Leyser, admitted on Sunday.
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