Rio 2016

— August 10, 2013

WADA suspends Rio lab

Three years before the Rio Games, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) does not seem to have much confidence in Brazilian laboratories. It has just withdrawn its accreditation from one... Read more "

— August 8, 2013

Rousseff commits to the Paralympics

Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil, received at the presidential palace some of the athletes who won medals at the IPC athletics world championships in Lyon. She took the opportunity to... Read more "

— June 27, 2013

From the All Blacks to Rugby 7s

Three years before the Rio Games, the Olympic rugby sevens tournament, the first of its kind, is already shaping up to be a great moment. The director of the New Zealand Federation,... Read more "

— May 17, 2013

The funny fight of wrestling

The Olympic future of wrestling will undoubtedly be decided at the end of May, in Saint Petersburg. Threatened to disappear from the program after the Rio Games... Read more "

— April 11, 2013

Africa in battle order

The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ACNOA) and the National Olympic Committee of Côte d'Ivoire met on Wednesday April 10 in Abidjan to lay the foundations of... Read more "

— March 26, 2013

20 more rooms

The city of Rio de Janeiro will have 250 additional hotels, around 20.000 rooms, between now and 2016 and the next Summer Games. According to Alfredo Lopes,... Read more "

— March 20, 2013

Golf is being built

Work has finally begun on the future green which will host, after 112 years of absence, the Olympic Golf events. It was last October that they should have normally started,... Read more "

— March 12, 2013

“Brazil will be ready”

Clouds are gathering around Rio and its many construction sites. Last Tuesday March 5, the violent rains which fell on the future Olympic city flooded... Read more "