Great Britain rowers win two gold and Team Dressage silver and climb to fourth in the medals table Heather Stanning and Helen Glover of GB claimed two Olympic rowing gold medals within 30 minutes to go fourth in the medal table on day seven of Rio 2016. They retained their Olympic title from London 2012…
On Day four Great Britain won two golds and four bronzes in cycling, shooting , Judo and gymnastics and have 12 medals at the 2016 Olympic games, to go ninth in the medals table. Joe Clarke won the Kayak K1 gold, Jack Laughter and Chris Mears won diving gold with the men’s synchronized 3m…
Great Britain won their first Gold medal of Rio 2016 as 21-year-old, Adam Peaty won gold for the men’s 100m breaststroke with a world record. Uttoxeter born broke his own world record by winning in 57.13 seconds, 1.5 seconds clear of his nearest rival, and became the first British man to win an Olympic…
The opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games was held on Friday, August 5th, 2016 at the Maracana Stadium with 12,000 athletes from 207 national delegations attending. Virginia Thrasher won the Women’s 10m Air Rifle gold medal, beating Li Du and Yi sling of China, who won the silver and Bronze respectively,
In April 2009, the Olympic Committee visited Rio to discuss the bid to host the games in Brazil and was awarded in October 2009, Brazil had come a long way to prepare for Olympics over the last seven years. Back then Brazil had a steady and popular President Lula and was praised around the world, with…
Several entrepreneurial favela residents are converting their humble homes into guesthouses, and are taking bookings for next summer’s Olympics, both from rich Brazilians and from overseas visitors. Some people are prepared to risk all so that they can grab a bargain, since a government policy called “pacification” was introduced in 2008. Under pacification, soldiers and…
Less than a year before the Rio de Janeiro Olympics 2016, the Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca is busy, with the making of Velodrome and gymnasium even as the last hold out in the neighbouring favela resisting police attempts to forcibly remove them. The budget of Reais 38.2 bn £7.9bn is slightly lower than…