China sent a team of 410 athletes and finished with 26 golds compared to Great Britain’s 27, their lowest gold medals tally since Atlanta in 1996, where they finished with just 16.
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The Queen hosted a glittering reception for the heroes of London 2012 and is likely to do the same for the stars of the 2016 Games.
Rugby and golf, which returned to the Olympic program after a long absence, proved to be successes, although the swaths of empty seats at many of Rio 2016’s venues were an indictment on the organizers’ inability to market the games to the public.
United States’ Courtney Okolo, Natasha Hastings, Phyllis Francis and Allyson Felix hold a sign and wear their nation’s flag after winning the gold in the women’s 4×400 meter relay during athletics competitions at the Summer Olympics inside Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016.
2/11 In spite of the downpours, the Maracana showed its samba side as the Rio Olympics closing ceremony took on a distinctly Carnaval feel. “But hopefully in four years we get it together and have a measurement that truly measures the total viewing that these games, or really anything, is bringing in”.
The most popular athletes included U.S. swimmers Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky, gymnast Simone Biles, footballer Neymar and sprinter Usain Bolt.
The network also was fortunate that the one-hour time difference between Rio and London meant it could carry so many swimming and track and field events live.
He noted that the Rio Olympics was the first in USA media history to carry live events on NBC’s other cable channels while NBC was carrying its prime time program.
Nineteen world records and 65 Olympic records (27 world records and 91 Olympic records if you count the ones broken a couple of times in the same event) were set during the Games, including a whopping 20 in the pool and eight on the track. Over 100 people were detained at a demonstration on August 5, while others were forcibly removed from competition areas for displaying message of protest, Amnesty said.
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Team GB pays nothing for winning a medal and does not reveal how much money is paid to athletes to cover their living expenses so they can give up work to dedicate their full time to training. “Not only have the Games gone well, Brazil is doing well, too”.
