With Rio hosting South America’s first Summer Games, Lee Hee-beom, president of the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, said he will be picking Rio’s collective brain.
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Residents of the Mangueira favela or slum, which overlooks the Maracana Stadium where the 2016 Olympic opening ceremony was held, expressed a mix of pride and disappointment as the Games opened in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.
“We got a great head start in the U.S. because of the support they had in their schools and their colleges growing up”, said Scott Blackmun, CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
USA women’s teams picked up right where they left off four years ago in London, where American women won 63% of all US gold medals and 56% of all USA medals total. The magazine predicts that China will finish second in the medal count, with 85.
Of the competitions that take place at the Olympics, 47.5 percent of them will be with female competitors – another record for the games. Brazilian time (8:30 a.m. ET), with athletes competing for medals in shooting, archery, fencing and swimming later in the day. As the 2016 Summer Olympics move into full gear, this race for the medal lead is only going to get more intense. American Alexander Massialas, the youngest US male athlete in London in 2012, is the nation’s best shot at gold in the event.
On the first night of swimming, SI is predicting Chase Kalisz will take bronze in the men’s 400-meter individual medley; Maya DiRado will win silver in the women’s 400 IM; and the USA women’s 4×100-meter freestyle team will take silver (behind Australia).
The virus has caused concern because women who are infected during pregnancy can give birth to children with microcephaly, which is an abnormal smallness of the head that is associated with an underdeveloped brain.
Rio is Viktor’s first Games without a men’s squad, leaving his chances of a medal limited to his individual performance. There will be some 4,700 women competitors of 10,444 total athletes – a 6.8 percent increase since 2000. The said member has left the Olympic Village’, the announcement read.
Rugby: Men’s final. Watch out for Fiji, which has never earned an Olympic medal in any sport but has won two straight World Series season titles.
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Usain Bolt is a -200 favorite to win the 100 meter event, a -300 favorite to win the 200 meter event, and a -200 favorite to win relay gold with Jamaica.
