The Brazilian Gymnastic performing her routine in Athens 2004. She is the 2003 world champion in the floor exercise. She was poised to become the first Brazilian woman ever to win an individual Olympic gold and the first black woman ever to take an individual gymnastics gold. But She failed in the final. Placed 5th – Score: 9.637

THE PARTHENON MARBLES www.greece.org History Of The Marbles www.parthenonuk.com Marbles Reunited www.marblesreunited.org.uk The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, are due to be celebrated in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012. London will become the first city to officially host the modern Olympic Games three times, having previously done so in 1908 and in 1948. By the bid submission deadline of 15 July 2003, nine cities had submitted bids to host the 2012 Olympics. These cities were Havana, Istanbul, Leipzig, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris and Rio de Janeiro. On 18 May 2004, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as a result of a scored technical evaluation, reduced the number of cities to five: London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, and Paris. By 19 November 2004 all five candidate cities had submitted their candidate file to the International Olympic Committee. The IOC inspection team visited the five candidate cities during February and March 2005. The Paris bid suffered two set-backs during the IOC inspection visit: a number of strikes and demonstrations coinciding with the visits and a report coming out that Guy Drut, one of the key members of the Paris bid team and IOC member, would face charges over alleged corrupt party political finances. On 6 June 2005 the International Olympic Committee released its evaluation reports for the five candidate cities. Although these reports did not contain any scores or …

twitter.com Rio de Janeiro is hosting the 2016 Olympic Games and has recently become the trendiest and most desirable city in the southern hemisphere, the cariocas are so lucky to live in Rio de Janeiro, a city that has the sexiest beach in South America (Copacabana) a place where you can find the most exotic looking women and the tiniest bikinis ever made. A city full of color, culture, excitement and beautiful people GO RIO!!

The Sports Director of the Rio 2016 Committee talks about his role in the organization of the biggest sport event in the world for the Games’s Makers section of Rio 2016 official website — www.rio2016.com

For more news & videos visit ?english.ntdtv.com Tourists arrive in Rio de Janeiro as the city wraps up preparations for the New Year. The big attraction is the New Year’s party on scenic Copacabana beach, with an impressive fireworks display planned. Thousands of tourists have already arrived in Rio de Janeiro, to celebrate 2011 in the city’s famous New Year’s party at Copacabana beach. Two million partygoers, dressed in traditional white, are expected to come here to watch the 20-minute fireworks show. It’s going to be a globally televised fireworks display. Some 25 tons of explosives, distributed among 11 rafts along the shore of the two-and-a-half mile beach, will mark the height of the night. Brazil’s Hotel Association says 90 percent of Rio’s 29-thousand hotel rooms were already occupied by Christmas Eve. This is an increase from last year. [Antonio Pedro Mello, Rio de Janeiro's Tourism Secretary] “We managed to anticipate this holiday season, during which Rio de Janeiro already has a large number of tourists here for the New Year.” Hundreds of workers are hurrying to finish setting up health centers and four stages that will host concerts on that special night. [Carla Santiago, Tourist]: “I am very excited, but also worried about the violence that we saw on the news and on the media. But, I am confident.” Last month, drug gangs launched a wave of violence in the city. 46 people were found dead when police and Army officials seized a notorious slum in the northern …

Lightning of the cauldron, final part & fireworks

This is Ty Loomis’ video from the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is the Beach Volleyball Gold Medal Match between Ty Loomis (USA) & Hans Stolfus(USA) vs Emanuel Rego (BRA) & Ricardo Santos (BRA). Emanuel & Ricardo were the defending Olympic Gold Medalist & were currently the #1 team in the World for 6 years straight. The Gold Medal Match was in Copacabana, Brazil, in Copacabana Arena. It was their home country, their home stadium, in front of 7500 chanting, dancing, heckling, screaming fans that were all cheering for Brazil in the 2nd largest International Olympic Format Event. This was an awesome tournament in Brazil&, all the fans were amazing & we were stoked to be apart of this. Check it out now! -Ty Loomis Pro Beach Volleyball Player

Brazil wins the cities of Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago. Brazil will host the Olympics Rio 2016 – Olympic and Paralympic Games ——————————— Brasil ganha das cidades de Madri, Tokio e Chicago. Brasil vai sediar uma Olimpíada Rio 2016 – Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos

The Rio 2016 Organizing Committee opens its doors and lets you know more about the spirit of the organization that works every day to deliver memorable Games in 2016.

Only a few weeks after Rio won its bid to host the Olympics Games in 2016, crime levels have become a major concern after a police helicopter was shot down. Since then, almost 50 people have been killed in clashes between police and rival drug gangs.