International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach maintains it was a risk worth taking.
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“Everybody knows Rafaela’s history” a Brazilian fan said.
The problems that played out alongside the sport can not be ignored, though.
The Boeing 747 will carry 320 athletes and support staff – as well as pole vaults, javelins, bicycles and a 6.7 metre sail – with a press conference scheduled for shortly after landing.
Farah s heroics and other astonishing performances took the spotlight off the long list of security scares and logistical problems which were a regular feature of South America s first Olympics. Obsess way too early about the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, that’s what. The 85,000 soldiers and police who flooded Rio to safeguard the sporting event will eventually return to their usual posts.
“I really felt blessed because in London in 2012 I felt that we were kind of adopted as a little bit of the home team”, Adrian said. “I’m definitely thinking about it”.
“It has been a brilliant Games but this is not an overnight success”. “To be fair, some of that was because of the economic and political background on which the games are being held”.
Speaking of the remarkable achievements at the Olympic Games, Prime Minister Theresa May said, “For the past fortnight, the people of the United Kingdom have been filled with pride as we’ve watched our Olympians take victory in so many sports with power, grace and control. I thought it could handle that”. I’ve lived a dream come true.
The price of a daily ticket, for example, was the equivalent of a half a week’s wage for the average worker who lives in a favela.
Games’ watchers also took potshots at announcers’ insensitive comments. “Seeing someone like me who left the City of God, who started judo at five years of age as a joke”.
Olympic medalist Stones said NBC “ignored and belittled” the field events in track and field (such as the shot put and his former sport, the high jump) and called its coverage “a disgrace”. “Not without satisfaction”, President of the German Olympic Sports Union, Alphonse Hёrmann, said that Russian Federation has become one of the “main losers” of the Rio Olympics.
The Rio Games brought first medals for Fiji, Jordan and Kosovo – and all three opened their accounts with gold, Fiji in the first Olympic rugby sevens competition.
Any controversies at the Tokyo Games brewing? .
And what about Zika?
At the age of 15, Phelps became the youngest American male swimmer to compete at an Olympic Games in 68 years.
Like those golfers, the mosquitoes stayed away.
In 2020, the Brooklyn-born Shiraishi will likely be competing in Tokyo.
And that’s a shame, because as my time in Rio illustrates, when you embrace uncertainty, it makes it even more delightful when things work out. It is one of the most important words in Brazilian Portuguese. The sports are baseball/softball, climbing, karate, skateboarding and surfing.
Numerous arenas are already in place, although there has been some controversy over the design and construction of the new Olympic stadium. “To be able to go even further than London, I think as a nation we should be proud”.
“Tokyo is ready to handle loads of tourists and it’s a very safe city”. Can they survive the polluted water – or the polluted air?
The stadium was soon bathed in a magical light, and performers formed distinctive shapes of Rio’s landmark sites like Sugarloaf Mountain, Corcovado Mountain and the Arches of Lapa, as figures clad like multi hued birds “flew” over them.
– Michael Phelps after winning his 23rd gold medal.
Who can replace Bolt and Phelps?
Gatlin also had one of the most embarrassing moments of the Olympics when he failed to qualify for the 200 meter final because he looked across before the finish line to check on the competition. And given that the medals athletes won in 2012 were made using just 9.6 kilograms of gold, 1,210 kilograms of silver, and 700 kilograms of copper, it seems that Japan will have more than enough of these metals to make their medals. The American added the 4x200m relay gold as a bonus.
The British had a Games to savor as well.
In the velodrome, British track cyclist Jason Kenny equalled Sir Chris Hoy’s national record of six Olympic golds.
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An Australian photographer lost tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment in an Ipanema coffee shop and then saw the thief two days later wearing his Olympic jacket with accreditation number.
