Off-field scandal also struck during the Games as police seized passports, phones and computers in a raid on the Irish Olympic office, following the arrest of Irish International Olympic Committee member Patrick Hickey over an alleged black market tickets scam.
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The NRAI order states that only in “matters specifically pertaining to the interview or findings/conclusions if any against or in favour of any Olympic team athlete that maybe examined by the committee, the Chairman of the committee shall be exempt participation in toto from such tasks by recusal, however upon his own request he too shall make himself available for interview by the remainder of the panel”.
A joyful sashay through Brazil’s extraordinary musical heritage was infused with a social message and a warning about the dangers of climate change.
But the beauty was betrayed by Brazil’s tough times.
And the dominance of superstar athletes like Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and American swimmer Michael Phelps created a string of near-certain victories that could have removed some of the suspense.
While the number of people turning into NBC’s primetime Olympics coverage was huge compared to the amount watching other networks, ratings still badly trailed those for the 2012 London games. There were 10 such moments for athletes from ten different nations who won the first ever gold medal for their respective countries.
“Our planning production and presentation of the Rio games.is the most impressive undertaking I’ve seen in the media world”, NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus said in the release. While the USA women’s basketball team claimed its sixth consecutive Olympic gold medal on Saturday.
“There you go. I’m the greatest”, Bolt said.
Few people had heard of Monica Puig before Rio 2016.
There was also only one gold medal for Taiwan, or “Chinese Taipei”, the name under which Taiwan is permitted to compete in the Olympics.
Ivory Coast – Cheick Salla Junior Cisse won the Africa nation’s first gold medal in taekwondo which was the nation’s 14 trip to the Olympic Games.
D’Agostino managed to get up, but rather than speeding off, she stopped and helped Hamblin to her feet.
By now, the Americans winning the medal race is nearly commonplace. They were awarded the Pierre de Courbertin prize for sporting behaviour.
Katie Ledecky set two world records en route to winning four golds and one silver, becoming only the second swimmer to sweep the 200-, 400- and 800-meter freestyle titles at a single Games.
The country thrashed Great Britain 43-7 to win the rugby final and make Olympic history.
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Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson superseded Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce as the Caribbean island’s queen of the track, the 24-year-old beating her elder compatriot in the 100m and then adding the 200m to her haul. Cariocas – as Rio’s residents are known – weren’t swayed by the issues that led up to these Olympics, and braved rain and strong winds on the final night to cap their moment in the worldwide spotlight.
