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The South American Games (also known as ODESUR Games; Spanish: Juegos Suramericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos), formerly the Southern Cross Games (Spanish: Juegos Cruz del Sur) is a regional multi-sport event held between nations from South America, organized by the ODESUR (acronym for "Organización Deportiva Suramericana" – South American Sports Organization.
ACOLOP (acronym for Associação dos Comités Olímpicos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa; English: Association of the Portuguese Speaking Olympic Committees) is an Olympic-related non-profit organization officially established on 8 June 2004, in Lisbon and has been approved by International Olympic Committee.
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016 found that, since 1960, sports-related costs for the Summer Games were on average US$5.2 billion and for the Winter Games $3.1 billion. These figures do not include wider infrastructure costs like roads, urban rail, and airports, which often cost as much or more than the sports-related costs.
"Após este maravilhoso espetáculo, declaro abertos os Jogos Olímpicos do Rio, celebrando a XXXI Olimpíada da Era Moderna!" - "After this wonderful spectacle, I declare open the Rio Olympic Games, celebrating the XXXI Olympiad of the modern era!" —
The 2024 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament (Spanish: Torneo Preolímpico Sudamericano, Portuguese: Torneio Pré-Olímpico Sul-Americano) was the 14th edition of the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organised by the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the South ...
The Grande Prêmio Cruzeiro do Sul, also known as the Brazilian Derby, [1] is a Group 1 flat horse race in Brazil open to three-year-olds run over a distance of 2,400 metres (1.5 mi) at Hipódromo da Gávea every April. It is the third leg of the Rio de Janeiro Triple Crown.
The VII South American Games (Spanish: Juegos Sudamericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos) were a multi-sport event held in 2002 in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba, and Belém; all in Brazil. The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization . [1] [2]
Cruzeiro do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, a town in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul, a defunct Brazilian airline, founded in 1927; Order of the Southern Cross (Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul), Brazil's highest order of merit; Cruzeiro do Sul is an old Samba school in Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul