Rio de Janeiro is the choice of the IOC to host the 2016 Olympics. Rio de Janeiro won on the third round of voting at the IOC Session in Copenhagen, after Chicago was eliminated in the first round ...

Taekwondo fighter Lee Dae-hoon was South Korea's probable gold medal winner in the men's 68 kg weight class at the Rio de ...

The first Latin American city to host the Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, received 66 votes compared ... Some fear the exercise will be repeated ahead of the 2016 Games. Concerns have also ...

Yesterday we posted a story on the furore surrounding the logo for the Rio 2016 Olympics, which was unveiled on New Year’s Eve ... Avoid clichés and present Rio de Janeiro as the site of the largest ...

New Delhi: The 2016 Rio Olympic Games were the first time that the Olympics were organised in South America. It was also the first Olympics to be held under the leadership of IOC president Thomas ...

Officials in Rio de Janeiro hoped hosting the 2016 Olympics would help make it a first-class city. Instead, many buildings and stadiums made for the games have gone unused since the event ended.

The 2016 Summer Olympics ... the costs of attending the Olympics, we looked at Lonely Planet's daily estimates for midrange and top end travelers to Rio De Janeiro. According to KAYAK, hotels ...

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge is confident he can win a historic third successive Olympic marathon gold medal in Paris this year. The 39-year-old, who was victorious in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and at the ...