Team Great Britain’s kit for the Rio Olympic Games has been revealed.
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The city of Rio, noted for its famed beaches, is also notorious for its crime.
The Olympic flame has arrived in Switzerland, home of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), en route from Athens to Brazil where the 2016 Games will be staged.
“Two of each are shown and held together by four chain links at the centre; these links stand for the four years of the Olympic/Paralympic cycle, but the shape is also meant to recall an athletics track”, an Adidas spokesperson said. “There are many challenges, but I think we have shown – the organizing committee has shown in the previous year – that great progress has been made”, IOC President Thomas Bach said.Along with construction, Brazilian politics could prove a distraction from the lighting of the torch. However, there are serious delays to the velodrome, while a crucial extension of Rio’s now limited metro system is only due to open at the start of July, leaving dangerously little wiggle room.
However, local officials in Rio insist the stadiums and other infrastructure is 98 percent ready.
Rio Olympics venues which are complete – with only the velodrome behind schedule..
In his speech to the assembly, Nuzman said that “the Games of the XXXI Olympiad share the same values”, as both the IOC and United Nations and welcomed the Olympic Flame on its final stop before headed to Brasilia. “They will help our people to feel more confident”.
After a relay in the stadium, Greek rowing champion Katerina Nikolairou lit the golden cauldron, surrounded by priestesses in long pleated dresses, and the crowd erupted into cheers.
The Olympics themselves are dealing with controversy.
Rio 2016 organizing committee president Carlos Nuzman, right, holds a torch with the Olympic Flame as the head of Greece’s Olympic Committee, Spyros Capralos applauds during the handover ceremony at Panathinean stadium i. She acknowledged the strain.
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The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) suspended Russia in November after a World Anti-Doping Agency commission said there was “state-sponsored” doping and widespread corruption in Russian sport.
