Kim Rhode becomes just the second American woman to compete at six Olympics as she qualified for the 2016 team in shooting at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Tillar, Ark., USA Shooting announced. Rio Olympic organizers unveiled their ticket design on Friday.
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“The first Rio 2016 ticket will leave the realm of graphics – I won’t say where, for obvious reasons – and will be sent on to the first fan, somewhere in the world”, Nuzman confirmed.
Rio de Janeiro, May 21 (IANS): This capital city’s government has requested that 2,500 members of Brazil’s armed forces be deployed during this year’s Olympic Games, officials have said.
Brazil’s capital will host the Games from August 5th, four years after London 2012.
Rio 2016 ticketing director Donovan Ferreti told ATR that this represents 67 percent of total tickets available worldwide.
Ferretti said the eventual number available would be between 6.6-6.7 million as the capacity of venues for swimming, rowing and canoeing have been reduced. Selling tickets above face value in Brazil was illegal.
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Brazil, a country of 204 million people with the largest Catholic population in the world, is a pioneer in the fight against AIDS and offers free treatment to 730,000 HIV-positive people in the country. Andrada said the goal of the organizing committee is to sell over 40 percent of Paralympic tickets before the Olympics open, after which he expected sales to pick up during and after the Olympics.
