IOC president Thomas Bach during the men’s basketball quarterfinals in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Carioca Arena 1 on August 17.
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He denied that Rio 2016’s organising committee has used any public money to stage the Games and said future generations of Cariocas, as people from Rio are known, will look kindly on the impact the Olympics have had on their city. An athlete could vote for up to four candidates.
We have seen iconic athletes across all the sports”, he told reporters at a wrap-up media briefing. “We have seen (runners) Nikki Hamblin (of New Zealand) and Abbey D’Agostino (of the US) falling and helping each other to the finish of the race”.
“But I think with these iconic Games, we have shown you can organise an Olympics in countries that are not at the top of the GDP ranking. And the quote of the American runner when she helped up her competitor, to say ‘Get up, we have to finish, this is the Olympic Games.’ I think you can not better describe Olympic spirit and fair play than with this gesture and these words”.
They have claimed that the funding for both events is combined and can not be treated as completely separate.
US Olympic swimmer Jimmy Feigen will pay $11,000 (€9,720) to a Brazilian charity to settle a dispute over what police called a fabricated story about him and his team-mates being robbed at gunpoint during the Rio games, ABC News reported. “He noted that NBC, the broadcast rights holder in the United States, has already reached 2.25 billion live streaming minutes – 750 million minutes more than all previous Olympic Games combined”. “These Olympic Games are the most clicked-on and most shared Olympic Games ever”.
Bach also highlighted the examples of “Olympism” that delight the IOC, moments such as hugs between Russian and Ukrainian athletes, North and South Koreans taking selfies with each other, and the sportsmanship displayed by injured runners Nikki Hamblin of New Zealand and American Abbey D’Agostino in the Olympic Stadium.
Born in Budapest, Gyurta made his first Olympic team when he was 15 years old.
They will have a great legacy. Before, 18% of the population had access to good quality public transportation.
Bach said there would be no disciplinary commission to investigate Hickey because the 71-year-old had temporarily stepped down from his International Olympic Committee positions as well.
“These have been iconic Games, the first in South America, and they have taken place in the middle of reality – they have not been organised in a bubble”, said Bach.
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during the opening ceremony for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016.
“They have been organised in a city where there are social problems and divides, where real life has continued during the Games”.
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“To be close to reality and not to have it in a bubble for 16 days, the Games somehow being isolated. To be in the middle of it, to see reality and by seeing this to put sport into perspective”.
