Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympic Games 2016 News

[Yannakis 362]

Welcome to olympic athletes from around the world on the facade of the hotel Copacabana Palace.

 

Edited August 3, 2016 by Janakis

[AmericanHero40 213]

1 hour ago, LDOG said:

 

The most recognizable are Bolt, Nadal, Djokovic, Neymar and Phelps. And that's it.

 

Murray is famous, but I don't think he's particularly liked outside of UK.

 

Gymnastics isn't popular at all outside of your country and Russia/East Europe, so I don't think many people would tell Biles apart.

 

EDIT. Serena Williams is very popular too.

 

You can tell biles apart! she's only 4'8"!

 

Edited August 3, 2016 by AmericanHero40

[orangeman 1,989]

48 minutes ago, Janakis said:

Welcome to olympic athletes from around the world on the facade of the hotel Copacabana Palace.

 

 

I was in Rio last year and stood (and swam) right in this spot. It's a spectacular building from the outside, I wish I would have gone in and had a look.  I'm sure Copacabana is bouncing right now!

[Griff88 1,952]

5 hours ago, De_Gambassi said:

 

There is a large part of the world that doesn't give a f. about basketball. None of these guys are more well_known outside of the US than Bolt, Phelps or Djokovic.

Even worse in Indonesia, most of them only know the top 10-15 badminton players and the European football stars. Phelps and Bolt gained popularity here during Beijing 2008, but no one really cares about London 2012 except badminton and weightlifting (and football maybe :P)... And also not until London 2012 Paralympics and Sochi 2014 most of people here know that Paralympics and Olympic Winter Games do exist.  As a big fan of the Olympics, I feel I am living in the wrong place because the ratings are low thus making it hard to watch the Olympics...

[Suneet 16]

25 minutes ago, Griff88 said:

Even worse in Indonesia, most of them only know the top 10-15 badminton players and the European football stars. Phelps and Bolt gained popularity here during Beijing 2008, but no one really cares about London 2012 except badminton and weightlifting (and football maybe :P)... And also not until London 2012 Paralympics and Sochi 2014 most of people here know that Paralympics and Olympic Winter Games do exist.  As a big fan of the Olympics, I feel I am living in the wrong place because the ratings are low thus making it hard to watch the Olympics...

Similar is the case in India. Cricket overshadows almost all other sports.

[AmericanHero40 213]

13 minutes ago, Suneet said:

Similar is the case in India. Cricket overshadows almost all other sports.

 

USA is not much better, even though we have so many good athletes, swimmers, gymnasts. On a regular basis outside of the 3 months before the olympics all people care about most is football, basketball, baseball. (Granted i'm a huge Football fan, but don't really care about the rest). NBC are great because they stream everything, but the TV Coverage is horrible plus their playback rules are really really annoying!!

[Griff88 1,952]

Some more updates..

 

>> Building 18

+ IOC + Refugee Team >> Building 15

>> Building 28

>>Building 17

>> Building 24

[Gianlu33 4,546]

Only 10 hours to the unofficial start  

[Dolby 735]

One small problem I am facing with the website is it shows schedule only in Rio time. There is option to change it to local time but it does not work. It is working fine in the app but not on web. 

[dcro 10,210]

9 hours ago, Agger said:

This happened during the welcoming of the Swedish team (no big deal but slightly embarrasing)

 

 

 

This is hilarious.