South Korean athletes at the Rio Olympics will wear long-sleeved training kits impregnated with mosquito repellant to protect them from the Zika virus, the national Olympic committee said on Thursday.
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Simon Gleave has been working the Olympic numbers for four years, putting them through a data-processing program as the head of analysis for US-based Gracenote, a sports and entertainment data provider.
Carlos Nuzman, head of Rio’s local organizing committee, said the city is ready to “deliver history”. The torch was carried by Syrian refugee Ibrahim Al-Hussein. Buildings around the world lit up in special colors – Brazilian yellow and green at Tokyo’s municipal government headquarters and U.S. red-white-blue for the Empire State Building in NY.
“Brazil’s most iconic city has completed around 98 percent of the venues for the 2016 Summer Olympics but workers were still racing to finish a subway expansion and rapid bus lanes to handle the surge in people”. “It is a signal of how much we anticipate finally coming to Brazil and being welcome by the warmth and hospitality of the Brazilian people”.
The flags of Greece, right, Brazil left, and Olympics wave as spectators wait for the handover ceremony at Panathinean stadium in Athens, Wednesday, April 27, 2016.
“China has always been a trusted and key partner of Brazil”. Australian Adam Scott, ranked No. 7 in the world, has said he won’t play in the Olympics, along with South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel and Fiji’s Vijay Singh. “We are proud to be Brazilians”. The response from the city’s mayor, who was in Athens to attend the lighting ceremony for the Olympic torch when the accident occurred, only underscores the concern.
President Dilma Rousseff appears likely to be suspended from office through impeachment in the next few weeks.
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Opening ceremonies are August 5 and Rio is promising a party like no other.
