Nuzman, a member of the Brazilian volleyball team at Tokyo 1964 and Brazilian Olympic Committee President, has been in charge of Rio 2016 from the time of the successful bid, launched in 2007.
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The American Olympic athletes will be bringing home 121 medals from the games in Rio de Janeiro. Some felt Rio failed to present the five-star experience tourists and visitors had enjoyed at London 2012, but the Games proved the city could deliver a spectacle against the odds.
A total of 87 Olympic nations won medals, a record, and 10 won the first gold medals in their countries histories. They ended the Games by winning the final one, courtesy their one-sided victory in the men’s basketball gold medal game.
In the championship men’s soccer game, Neymar pulled out the win for Brazil over Germany by scoring the game’s first goal (the third most-tweeted moment), and then landing the gold medal-winning penalty kick in a shootout (the No. 1 most-tweeted moment). And American swimming standout Ryan Lochte and three teammates caused outrage when they falsely claimed they had been robbed at gunpoint in Rio by muggers disguised as police.
United States of America swimmer Michael Phelps, arguably the most decorated Olympian of all time, topped the medal table with 5 gold medals and 1 silver, followed by fellow U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky with 4 golds and one silver, and rounding out the top three was another US athlete, 19-year-old gymnast Simone Biles with 4 golds and one bronze.
“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. USA track star Allyson Felix, now a six-time gold medalist and a victor of nine medals in all, was particularly delighted to learn that women are bringing more medals home to American than the men.
The 40-year-old sealed silver this time around to take her overall Olympic medal tally to five and she wants the recent successes to have an uplifting effect on the country. “No team has done what we have – improve five Games in a row, medals-wise”.
Britain’s Olympic heroes arrived home on Tuesday still aglow from their success in Rio, with some athletes even describing the Games as better than its predecessor in London four years ago.
He said: “It’s great to be back on British soil again and I can’t wait to inspire the next generation of British athletes”.
“We also had athletes in Rio who we expect not necessarily to win a medal in Tokyo but possibly to win one in wherever the 2024 Olympics are held so we invest over this long time period”.
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“I don’t think you’re going to see another Michael”, said coach Bob Bowman. Russian Federation – with its track team told to stay home because of the doping probe and a cloud hovering over its athletes who were in Rio, some of whom got publicly called out by competitors – finished with 19 golds and 56 medals overall, both well below its normal showings.
