This app helps you to discover the official social media accounts of your favorite Olympians so you can get a more personal connection with the athletes of the 2016 Summer Games. NBC will also be producing a daily two-minute Olympic video recap specifically for Facebook as well as a daily slow-motion video for Instagram highlighting the day’s most inspiring moments.
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That triggered an automatic suspension from Rio according to criteria laid down by the International Olympic Committee last month in response to an independent report confirming state-backed Russian doping across a wide range of sports.
Former Brazilian women’s volleyball player, Maria Isabel Barroso Salgado, lifted the flame beneath the outstretched arms of the giant statue of Christ that overlooks Rio’s Guanabara bay.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 05/08/2016.
If there’s one team facing arguably more pressure than any other, it’s the Brazilian men’s soccer team.
The Games – held in South America for the first time – officially take place between 5 and 21 August, but they have actually already started with the women’s football, followed by archery, where South Korea’s Kim Woo-Jun has already set the new 72-arrow world record. Opening ceremonies are 8 p.m. tonight.
The majority of Jamaica’s medals are expected to come from the track and field athletes, with the world’s fastest man and reigning Olympic champion in the men’s 100- and 200-metre events, Usain Bolt, expected to retain his titles.
After the grandeur of Beijing’s opening ceremony in 2008 and the high-tech, cheeky inventiveness of London’s in 2012, Rio’s was earthier, less swish and still inventive.
The cauldron was designed by American sculptor Anthony Howe, who told The Associated Press he was inspired by life in the tropics.
De Lima was one of the suspected candidates after Pele revealed earlier in the day that health problems would keep him from attending the opening ceremony at Maracana Stadium.
The Rio Olympics are finally here, here’s everything you need to know about the biggest sporting events, and a breakdown of exactly what’s happening in Rio right now.
While the ceremony will undoubtedly focus on the joyous aspects of Brazilian culture, the Olympics comes at a hard time for Brazil, a country now experiencing the worst recession in its history and unprecedented political turmoil.
In all, 4,800 performers and volunteers will be involved in the show at Rio’s Maracana stadium.
NBC broadcast the opening ceremony on a one-hour tape delay because it wants the entertainment spectacle to be shown completely in USA prime time.
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The show drew homegrown stars, like supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who walked across the sands to the sound of bossa nova hit “Girl from Ipanema” and Paulinho da Viola, a samba songwriter who sang the national anthem with a string orchestra.
