Rio De Janeiro Olympics

Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games was an athletic tournament that took place in Rio de Janeiro from August 5 to 21, 2016. The modern Olympic Games were held for the 28th time in Rio de Janeiro. For the first time, the Olympics were held in either the summer or winter in South America.

Let us know about the Olympics Rio De Janeiro 2016 and its achievements from this article.

Overview of Rio de Janeiro

The International Olympic Committee chose Rio over Chicago, Madrid, and Tokyo to host the Games in 2009. The Rio Olympics or the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic games were beset by more issues than any other recent Olympiad. The Rio Olympics, like many other 21st-century Games, including the 2014 Sochi Olympics, were beset by major cost overruns and construction delays.

Athletes, coaches, and tourists were leery of visiting the criminal offence city, which had also seen several notable athletes, like golfers Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth, withdraw due to an outbreak of the Zika virus.

The city's waterways were so polluted and loaded with trash that the World Health Organization advised athletes to avoid eating it, cover any exposed cuts with waterproof bandages, and shower as soon as they left the site. Rio de Janeiro declared a "state of public calamity" less than 50 days before the Games began, allowing authorities to limit basic public services and making the state eligible for federal emergency funds.

Furthermore, the Petrobras scandal threw the Brazilian economy into a recession in the run-up to the Games.

Despite these hurdles, the Rio Games officially began on time, and there were a few major issues over the two-week event. With nearly 11,000 athletes competing in 42 sports, the Games set a new record with 205 participating national Olympic committees. Golf and rugby sevens were two notable new sports in the Rio Olympics. The Rio Olympics also witnessed the first appearance of a Refugee Team, which consisted of ten athletes from diverse, war-torn nations who had yet to find a permanent new home before the Games.

Achievements of the Rio Olympics

The achievements of the greatest Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic games, U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, and the best sprinter in Olympic history, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, were the highlights of the Rio Olympics. Phelps increased his Olympic record totals for overall medals (28) and gold medals (28) after returning from a brief retirement (23).

On the track, Bolt won the 100-meter and 200-meter events for the third time in a row, becoming the first athlete in history to do so. He also won gold with Jamaica's 4 x 100-meter relay team, giving him three gold medals in three consecutive Olympics—until a failing drug test by one of his 2008 relay teammates resulted in the earlier relay medal being removed in January 2017. Despite this, Bolt's six Olympic gold medals in individual sprints confirmed his status as the fastest man in history.

Phelps was not the only American to win a gold medal in the pool in Rio. Katie Ledecky took home four gold medals (200, 400, and 800-meter freestyles, and the 4x200-meter relay) and one silver medal (4 100-metre freestyle relay). Her run in the 800-meter final was about two seconds faster than the previous world record, and she finished more than 11 seconds faster than the silver winner.

Simone Manuel, a fellow American swimmer, won two golds and two silvers, making her the first African American woman to win an individual swimming gold in the 100-meter freestyle. Americans also won the women's gymnastics events, with Simone Biles becoming the first American woman — and just the fifth female — to win four gold medals in a single Games (all-around, floor exercise, vault, and team). In the team event, Biles' fourth gold was noteworthy in that the American team won by the widest margin of victory (8.209 points) since the "open-ended" scoring system was implemented in 2006.

In other events, the home Brazilian men's football (soccer) team won the first Olympic gold medal in the country's history, thanks to star forward Neymar's dramatic penalty kick in the final. Fiji's rugby sevens team earned the country's first gold medal, fittingly in the country's most popular sport, leading the country to declare a national holiday.

At the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic games, two British athletes made history: distance runner Mo Farah repeated as Olympic champion in the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter races, becoming only the second man (after Lasse Virén) to do so, and cyclist Bradley Wiggins won gold as a member of the men's pursuit team, giving him an unprecedented eight Olympic medals in his career, the most in his country's history.

Final Medal rankings of Rio de Janeiro Olympics

The Rio de Janeiro Olympics final medal rankings are provided in the table below:

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Rio Games also celebrated and promoted sports because of the city's gorgeous environment and a desire to raise event presentations to new heights. At the same time, Rio 2016 provided an opportunity to deliver on the city's, region's, and country's larger objectives for the long-term future—an opportunity to speed Rio de Janeiro's development into an even greater global city.

Conclusion

Thus, we have covered information about the Rio Olympics 2016. The Olympics are one of the most important events in sports history. To participate and win a medal in the Olympics is a dream for any sportsperson. The list of medals and their achievers shows how much they have practised winning an international competition of a particular game.