Olympics in Brazil

THE MASCOT

They serve as ambassadors and messengers of friendship and embody the culture and fauna of the region where the Olympic Games take place. Therefore, it changes the home edition.

The mascot name is in honor of the musicians Vinicius de Moraes a musician was an exponent of Bossa Nova.

Vinicius the Olympic Games mascot is a mixture of all the Brazilian animals. He was born out of the explosion of joy that happened when they announced that Rio would host the Olympic Games.

His special power is: it can stretch (and stretch and stretch) himself, as much as he want, he can be with a head on Sugar Loaf (Pão de Açúcar), with the feet on Maracanã and his hands on Corcovado - all at the same time!

His mission is to spread joy throughout the world and celebrate the friendship that flourishes between people from all over the world at this super sports event.

THE OLYMPIC TORCH

The Olympic flame is an important symbol of the Games, representing peace, unity and friendship. The torch is used to pass the flame from one bearer to another during the relay, until the lighting of the cauldron at the opening ceremony.

Among the main innovative aspects of the Rio 2016 torch is the opening segments, revealing characteristics of Brazilian flair: harmonious diversity, contagious energy and exuberant nature.

The Olympic torch has a system never seen -for the first time the torch has movement-

the great advantage of this torch is during the “Kiss” - when the torch lean in another during the passage of the Olympic flame - the core create a movement, that leave the torch 6.5 cm higher.

This movement; up and down; happens along the triangular mesh torch texture, divided into three parts, alludes to the Olympic values ​​of excellence, friendship and respect.

CURIOSITIES

The 2016 Olympics will be the first in South America; Africa is now the only continent never to receive the Games.

This edition of the Olympics will be historic. Two sports are coming back to the Games: rugby returns 92 years after his last appearance . Golf is also back 112 years later.

In total will be sold 7.5 million tickets , divided into four different categories. The cheapest ticket costs R$ 40 and the most expensive costs R$ 4.600

The First Brazilian Women that participated in an edition of the Olympics was a female swimmer Maria Lenk , than more than a Brazilian first , Maria Lenk was the first woman of south America to participate of olympics games.

Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima During received the Pierre de Coubertin medal (awarded by the International Olympic Committee ) for athletes who value the Olympic competition more than victory ) for his sportsmanship to continue in the race despite being attacked and humility demonstrated after the test, Vanderlei was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin Medal , which is considered a very high honor awarded by the organization. 

OLYMPIC SPORTS

It is going to compete 39 sports this year (2016) in Olympics that is going to happen in Brazil. 

Some of this sports are Artistic Cymnastics, Basketball, Beach Vollyball,Cycling BMX, Diving, Equestrian, Football, Judo, Sailing, Swimming, Volleyball ......., etc. 

Brazil will compete for all the 39 sports, but of course that we have some expectations. For example, our high expectations is:

• Beach Volleyball

Why do we have more chances about winning this category? Because we have some medals already whats incourage us to not loosing our podium

• Football

Of course that the "soccer's country" has the highest expectations, or try to keep it after "World's Cup", but we are brazilians and we never give up, and to motivate us we have some medals in this category too.

• Sailing

Brazils have 4 gold medals in this category, if we keep this rythm would make brazilians more hapier and hopefulness

• Volleyball

Volleyball its also a good bet because we have a total of 5 medals and our athletes is working very hard to keep the podium.

Constructions and After Olympics

 Since October 2009, when it was announced as the host of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Rio de Janeiro (RJ) prepares to welcome athletes and visitors at the biggest sporting event on the planet, being held for the first time in South America.

The city of Rio de Janeiro will be divided into four zones that will receive the competitions of the 28 Olympic disciplines: Barra de Tijuca, Maracanã, Deodoro and Copacabana. Four other cities (Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Salvador and São Paulo) will serve as support to compete in the Olympic football.

The city will undergo a profound urban transformation and social: will be prioritized the construction of expressways, tunnels and housing, BRT lines (acronym for Bus Rapid Transit, exclusive bus lane) and the revitalization of the waterfront.

Thanks to achievements in previous years, the Pan American Games and Parapan (2007), Military World Games (2011) and also of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the city won't have to leave the zero to be the center of the sports world in August 2016. In the Olympic village and Ipc, for example, only 26% of the facilities need to be built.

The best of the Olympics are the benefits that will be then to town. The Olympic Park will house temporary facilities such as, for example, the Arena of the future, which will be dismantled and turned into four schools. Deodoro sports complex will the second biggest leisure area of town called Radical Park. On site, there will be an artificial lake with water slides and a BMX bike track.

In addition to the leisure, transportation and education, tourism will also be benefited, there will be an increase in the number of visitors, growth of quantity of hotels and more investments coming to town.

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