More than 11,000 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), including first time entrants Kosovo and South Sudan, are taking part. With 306 sets of medals, the games features 28 Olympic sports—including rugby sevens and golf, which were added by the Inteational Olympic Committee in 2009. These sporting events is taking place at 33 venues in the host city and at five venues in the cities of São Paulo (Brazil’s largest city), Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Brasília (Brazil’s capital), and Manaus.
These are the first Summer Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Thomas Bach. The host city of Rio de Janeiro was aounced at the 121st IOC Session held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009. Rio became the first South American city to host the Summer Olympics. These are the first games to be held in a Portuguese-speaking country, the first to be held entirely during the host country’s winter season (the 2000 games began on 15 September – five days before the Southe Hemisphere’s spring equinox), the first since 1968 to be held in Latin America, and the first since 2000 (and third overall) to be held in the Southe Hemisphere.
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نویسنده: محمد رضا جوادیان