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The last Brazilian medal of 2024 Summer Olympics was a bronze one achieved by Brazil women's national volleyball team. The team went undefeated in the pool round and in the bracket leading up to the semifinal, but lost by 3 sets to 2 to the United States.
Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was the host city to the 2016 Summer Olympics. This marked the first time that any country in South America has hosted the games. [2] This also marks the first time that a lusophone country hosted any edition of the Olympic Games.
Brazil, the previous host of the 2016 Olympics at Rio de Janeiro, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]
Team USA men's basketball rolled through Group C in the 2024 Paris Olympics, earning the No. 1 overall seed for the knockout round.. Led by LeBron James and Kevin Durant, Team USA defeated Puerto ...
Images from the start of the first week of the 2024 Olympics. ... Olympian Gabriel Medina of Brazil after getting a large wave in Teahupo'o, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti.
The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), [C] officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad (Portuguese: Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August.
By 2034, eleven cities will have hosted the Olympic Games more than once: Athens (1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics), Paris (1900, 1924 and 2024 Summer Olympics), London (1908, 1948 and 2012 Summer Olympics), St. Moritz (1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics), Lake Placid (1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics), Los Angeles (1932, 1984 and 2028 Summer Olympics ...
Brazil may not be as ready to host the 2016 summer Olympics as you might expect. Stadiums are unfinished, setups aren't organized and only half the tickets for all events have been sold.