The competition was the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat and educator who founded the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
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Losing host advantage will mean to less success for Britain according to GoldmanGoldman Sachs has used a system of macroeconomics in order to determine how many medals participating nations at the 2016 games will chalk up, and it believes that Britain will win 6 fewer than when the event was hosted in London 4 years ago. She has more than 40 national and global medals to her name and has won more World Cup medals than any other female shotgun shooter in history.
Since women’s basketball became part of the Olympic program in 1976 the US have lost just three games.
The IOC requires new sports wishing to enter the Olympic program to provide equal tests; however, there are several traditional sports, such as wrestling, that have lesser parity, with 13 men’s and four women’s events, and canoeing with eight men’s to three women’s regattas for calm waters.
In badminton, superstar Lin Dan and world champion Chen Long. looks to be a potential gold medal winners while in the women’s singles event, world number two Wang Yihan and Li Xuerui, the world number three, will be hoping to retain the gold she won in London. It was in 2008 that Bindra first won a gold in 10m air pistol rifle event held in Beijing.
Though there is no official target for gold medals mentioned by officials the Chinese media are confident the Olympic team can win at least 30 golds. The Pennsylvania native won the 2015 skeet world title and is now ranked second in the world.
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“The leadership of the (Greek) Olympic team in Rio announces the positive first sample of a member of the team during drugs testing conducted in early July in Athens”, the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) said of the unnamed competitor.
