The 2016 Rio Summer Olympics are over, and what a remarkable job our hardworking, dedicated athletes did.
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The 2016 Rio Olympics have come to an end, and the Summer Games enter a four-year hibernation before hitting Tokyo in 2020.
The UN chief also recalled his meeting with the 10-member Refugee Olympic Team that participated in the Games under the Olympic flag.
“We agree that winning gold is not the only benchmark, but we also recognize the Olympic motto is faster, higher and stronger after all”, China’s sports minister Liu Peng said in Rio on Sunday.
The U.S., led by former Clemson star Brianna Rollins with the gold, took all three medals in the women’s 100 hurdles – the first time any nation has accomplished that feat in that event. While the USA women’s basketball team claimed its sixth consecutive Olympic gold medal on Saturday. What do you think we will be exposed to in its Opening Ceremony?
Of course, he said the same thing after the 2012 London Olympics. On Sunday, at the close of the first Olympics in South America, he again emphasised the importance of diversity to the Olympic movement.
Michael Phelps’ live broadcast before his final team race, where he confirmed his retirement, was the most viewed live broadcast by an Olympian during the games, racking up over 3.97m views.
Jamaica won six gold medals – home to the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt – in Rio from its population of 2.73 million people, equating to a population per gold medal of 454,323.
Swim legend Phelps took his unmatched career haul to 23 gold medals with another five in Rio – plus a silver, after his loss to former childhood fan Joseph Schooling.
On a sodden final day, Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge, 31, shone with his seventh win in eight marathons, timing 2hr 8min 44sec to win by more than a minute.
In Russia, a gold medal is worth 4 million RUB – which is the equivalent of about $62,000.
Another 19-year-old newcomer, Simone Biles, dominated the gymnastics arena with her record-equalling four women’s gold medals and a bronze at her first Games.
World champion swimmer Michael Phelps, who started competing in the Olympics when he was 15, retired in 2012 but chose to rejoin this year.
The host Brazilians got soccer gold that they craved, the Russians struggled on the heels of the exposure of a state-sponsored doping program, and the Chinese finished well below expectations.
This points to a rebuilding phase ahead of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the capital of China’s war-time rival and former colonial power which still evokes bitter resentment among many Chinese.
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“Brazil has lost the most important medal at play during Rio 2016: the chance to become a champion on human rights”, Amnesty International Brazil Executive Director Atila Roque was quoted as saying in the statement.
