The decision to elect Rio de Janeiro as the host of the 2016 Olympics was not driven by money, otherwise the International Olympic Committee (IOC) would have picked Chicago, IOC chief Jacques Rogge said on Monday. “It is clear that the IOC in its choice has not chosen for the big money,” Rogge said, speaking [...]
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stood at the front of the delegation about to deliver Rio de Janeiro’s merits as a potential Olympic host and suddenly found himself breaking into song with his compatriots. Brazil’s tropical heart beat to the rhythm of Rio’s anthem, Cidade Maravilhosa (Marvellous City), in chilly Denmark: ‘Marvellous city, [...]
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When Rio de Janeiro announced its third bid to host the Olympic Games, chances of success seemed very slim. Problems like urban violence, chaotic traffic and pollution appeared to indicate that the Brazilian city stood little chance against major rivals from the industrialised world with a longer tradition of hosting large sports events. However, Rio [...]
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About 24 hours before the International Olympic Committee’s release on Wednesday its evaluation commission report on the four finalists to host the 2016 Summer Games, a shootout between police and robbers described as drug traffickers forced the authorities to shut down a main artery near Rio de Janeiro’s international airport for five to 15 minutes [...]
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Brazilians are confident that if the International Olympic Committee practices what it preaches, then Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Summer Games. After all, a defining principle of the modern IOC is “universality” — the idea that every country should have the chance to participate actively in what it calls the Olympic Movement. Another [...]
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The secretary general of the Comite of Candidates of Rio de Janeiro-2016, Carlos Roberto Osorio, expressed optimism in the coming election to hold the Olympic Games that year. The director who is visiting Cuba presented the Brazilian project for the games that is also requested by Tokyo, Madrid and “Chicago. We are very optimistic. We [...]
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Rio de Janeiro proposes to hold all sporting events within the city limits—apart from the football (soccer) tournaments which would be held in the cities of Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Salvador and São Paulo—making the Games more compact and technically feasible. The competition venues will be located in four Olympic zones—Barra, Copacabana, Deodoro, and Maracanã—and divided [...]
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The bidding process for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games was officially launched on May 16, 2007. The first step for each city was to submit an initial application to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by September 13, 2007, confirming their intention to bid. Completed official bid files, containing answers to a 25-question IOC form, were [...]
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