The Summer Olympics will be held in Brazil in Rio de Janeiro from 5 to 21 August.
Live broadcasts will most likely not be very convenient for us to watch. Time zones will have their effect.
Surely the Olympics will amaze with a riot of colors. Carnival specialists will not miss the opportunity to demonstrate their skills.
Olympic venues 2016.
Maracana
The opening ceremony will take place here.
Football competitions are planned here and in the vicinity, athletics and volleyball.
Barra
Barra will accept rhythmic gymnastics, wrestling, basketball, tennis, cycling, golf, water polo and diving.
Copacabana
Copacabana will host competitions in swimming, rowing, sailing, triathlon.
Deodoro
Deodoro plans to host such sports like: mountain bike; rowing slalom; pentathlon; shooting; equestrian competitions; fencing.
Talisman 2016
The talismans were characters of yellow-orange and blue-green colors.
Yellow looks like some kind of cat-like animal, and blue looks like a fruit or a bright sea anemone.
The animal-like talisman was named Vinicius, and the plant-like talisman was named Tom.
Olympics logo.
The logo is three dancing (by itself) little men green, yellow and blue. They combined the brightness of the hostess of the Olympiad - the sun, rough vegetation and the blue ocean.
Medals.
Medals for the 2016 Olympics will be made from old electrical appliances
The choice of raw materials is dictated by the desire to demonstrate the concern of the organizers of the Games for the environment.
The Brazilian Mint will produce 4,924 award and 75,000 commemorative medals for the Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
Ticket prices.
Most cheap ticket will cost fans of sports 14 euros.
The organizers have not yet provided for discounts for preferential groups of citizens.
One of the most expensive pleasures will be going to the finals of the 100 meters. The ticket will cost 420 euros - this is best places. In London, the cost of similar tickets was over 900 euros.
The best seats at the opening ceremony cost 1600 euros, in England, for such a pleasure, one had to part with the amount of 2530 euros.
The ticket price for the closing ceremony of Rio 2016 is about 1050 euros, for the tennis finals - 245 euros.
On the eve of Holy Week, Orthodox believers celebrate (this is how the church holiday is called Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem).
The holiday is dedicated to the solemn entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. On a young donkey, Jesus Christ rode into the capital of Judea to the admiring exclamations of the crowd, covering the way for him with branches of date palms, like a king or a conqueror.
In our "northern" country, palm trees do not grow (with the exception of the city of Sochi and its environs), so in Rus' palm branches were replaced with willow branches. On Palm Sunday, believers make bouquets of willow branches with fluffy buds, consecrate them in churches and put them at home as a symbol of the holiday.
For a whole year, until the next Palm Sunday, several branches are kept behind the icon, bringing peace and prosperity to the house.
Traditions and customs of Palm Sunday:
The tradition of celebrating this day has long been established.In the morning with a small bouquet of willow attend a church service where is happening consecration of twigs. The number of willow branches should correspond to the number of members of your family.
After consecration, the willow acquires miraculous power: it saves from diseases, evil spirits, damage and other troubles.
At the end of the service, the whole family gathers for a festive dinner. It is on the day of Palm Sunday that it is allowed to cook various dishes with fish for lunch during Great Lent.
A custom from ancient times not allowed to work on that day. However, this rule only applies first half of the day usually before the end of the church service. After all, household chores, especially in rural areas, cannot be avoided. Try, if possible, not to wash on this day, but you can deal with the earth.
There are also customs associated with willow, collected and consecrated on Palm Sunday:
* Willow twigs have truly miraculous properties. Collected on this day, they are able to drive away illness and misfortune. Therefore, on the way home from the temple, many people lightly whip each other with willow.
* Willow buds, if you carry them with you, give strength to men. And young women use willow buds as amulet and assistant in the conception of a child. There is a belief that if you eat 9 willow buds (can be baked in bread), it will save you from toothache, infertility, sore throat, and other diseases.
* If pat a girl on the back a twig of a flowering willow, then the groom will certainly appear soon and the wedding is just around the corner.
* On farms bake special bread in which willow buds are mixed. If such bread is fed to livestock or pets, then the animals will begin (continue) to grow well and will not get sick. Also, in order to protect living creatures from troubles, you can sprinkle animals with willow branches moistened with holy water.
But what signs are associated with the weather on Palm Sunday:
* If on this day windy and cloudy- so all summer time do not wait for heat, summer promises to be cold.
* If it shines sun and warmth Spring will be warm and summer will come early.
Incredible Facts
Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil starts on August 5 and will last until August 21, 2016.
The opening and closing ceremonies will take place at the Maracanã Stadium and during the games, around 16,000 athletes will compete in 306 sets of medals in 42 sports.
More than 1.6 million foreign tourists visit Rio de Janeiro every year. This is the most visited city in Brazil, because in 2015 alone, about a million tourists came to Rio for the carnival.
Here are a few interesting facts about Olympic Games 2016 you wanted to know.
Summer Olympic Games 2016
1. For the first time in history, the Olympic Games will be held in South America . Rio de Janeiro was voted in 2009, leaving cities like Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo behind.
2. The Olympic torch relay began on April 21 in the home of the Olympic Games in Olympia, Greece, passing through Brazil in a little more than 90 days, and completing its journey in Rio de Janeiro on August 5.
3. The opening and closing ceremony will be held on the Maracanã stadium, which holds the record for the largest number of football fans attending.
Although it currently holds about 78,000 people, it has been able to muster 173,000 fans during the 1950 FIFA World Cup final. It also hosted the final of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
4. Expected around 10,500 athletes from 206 countries will take part in the Olympics, playing 306 sets of awards.
5. Competitions will be held in four different zones: on Copacabana beach- where will the beach volleyball competitions take place, in Barra da Tijuca- where is Olympic Park, V Deodoro- where will the water sports competitions take place, Olympic Centerbmx and centers for equestrian sports, as well as in Maracana where there are two large stadiums.
Sports in the 2016 Olympics
6. Golf will return to the Olympics after 112 years. The International Olympic Committee has decided to re-include this sport, which last time took place in 1900 and 1904.
7. For the first time, Olympians born in 2000 will participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
According to the rules, athletes born before January 1, 2003 can take part in competitions, but in some sports other age restrictions apply. The youngest participants will most likely compete in sports such as gymnastics and diving.
8. A team of athletes who were forced to leave their country will take part in the competition. The IOC stated that about 5-10 private refugee team will compete under the Olympic flag.
9. Vinicius is the mascot for the 2016 Olympics.- a yellow-blue character representing the animal world of Brazil.
It looks like a cat or a monkey that can fly and stretch its limbs and body.
It was named after the Brazilian musician Vinicius de Moraes, who became one of the authors of the famous bossa nova composition "The Girl from Ipanema". Organizers hope the mascot will help them raise 1 billion reais ($398 million) from merchandise sales.
10. Total submitted to the Olympic Games 7.5 million tickets, ranging from $40 for some swimming events to nearly $3,000 for the top seats at the opening ceremony.
The most popular competitions are football, basketball, volleyball and handball.
11. The organizers are planning cook about 60,000 meals a day to feed athletes. Traditional Brazilian dishes will be offered, such as rice, black beans and grilled meat, tapioca, cheese rolls and acai berries.
Participants of the 2016 Olympic Games
12. The 2016 Olympics are expected to participation of 70,000 volunteers mainly from Brazil, USA, UK, Russia and China.
13. For the Olympics involved about 85,000 soldiers and police is the largest security force formed for an event in Brazilian history and is twice the size of the security forces present at the London 2012 Olympics.
14. The Organizing Committee provided Rio de Janeiro taxi drivers with the opportunity to enroll in free online English courses.
15. The motto of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was "Viva sua paixão", which translates as "Live your passion."
Less than a year is left before the opening of the next Summer Olympic Games. The main sports competitions of the four years will start on August 5, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro at the Maracana Stadium. For the first time, the Olympics will be held in South America.
Summer Olympic Games-2016were far from the first application for such a competition in Brazil. Previously, Rio de Janeiro claimed to host the Olympics in 1936, 1940, 2004 and 2012. Attempts to host the main Games were successful for Rio only for the fifth time. In addition to Brazil, Madrid (Spain), Tokyo (Japan) and Chicago (USA) also competed for the right to host the XXXI Summer Games. Interestingly, at the first stage, St. Petersburg also fought for the possibility of hosting the Summer Olympic Games. However, in the summer of 2007, after the city of Sochi received the right to host the 2014 Winter Games, the northern capital withdrew from this race.
NUMBERS
The Summer Olympic Games in sunny Brazil will be held from 5 to 21 August. August in this country is considered calendar winter. The air temperature at this time here is from +18 to +25 degrees. In Rio de Janeiro, August is the "coldest" and windiest month of the year, but also one of the sunniest (22 days of clear weather). The opening ceremony of the XXXI Summer Olympic Games will begin on August 5 at 18:00 local time (at Southern Urals- 2am). In a tradition that began at the 1996 Games, it will be Friday.
Feature of the upcoming Olympics will be a return to the official program after a long absence of sports such as rugby sevens and golf. Rugby competitions within Summer Games last held 92 years ago, and golf has not been considered Olympic for the past 112 years.
According to the organizers, in the upcoming competitions more than 10 thousand athletes will take part, which will represent 205 countries of the world. Athletes will play 306 sets awards in 42 types. The largest number medals - 47 sets (23 for women, 24 for men) will go to athletes. Almost 5,000 award and 75,000 commemorative Olympic medals will be produced by the Brazilian Mint.
Over 7.5 million tickets for sports competitions can already be purchased by booking them through the National Olympic Committee. The cheapest seats at the grand opening ceremony will cost viewers $86, while the price of the most expensive reaches up to $2,000. The average ticket price for the competition is $30.
The official cost of preparing for the Olympics in Brazil today is 2.9 billion dollars. The amount differs significantly from the originally announced - 1.8 billion. The organizers attributed the significant increase to inflation, the addition of new species to the program, and an unforeseen increase in the cost of equipping the Olympic Village.
SYMBOLS OF RIO 2016
Emblem of the XXXI Olympic Games, according to its creators, symbolizes Rio de Janeiro itself. The symbol of the future Games is based on the three colors of the national flag of Brazil, and the sinuous lines represent the sea, the sun, the mountains and the silhouettes of people dancing together.
- Vinicius and Tom- presented back in November 2014. The names of the patrons of the Games were given in honor of famous Brazilian musicians. The characters are collective images of the richest flora and fauna of a tropical country. Olympic mascot depicted as a smiling yellow beast Vinicius, similar to a cat. Tom, resembling a cross between a flower and a tree, is the mascot of the Paralympic Games, the personification of the Brazilian flora.
OLYMPIC FIRE
The traditional lighting of the fire will take place on April 21, 2016 in Greece. The flames will be delivered to the capital of the Games by a special flight by air by April 27, and will start on May 3 olympic torch relay "Rio 2016". It is planned to involve 12 thousand torchbearers in it. The length of the walking route for each of the participants will be about 200 meters. The total length of the route will be 20 and 16 thousand km by land and air, respectively.
The relay will take place almost throughout Brazil, and almost 90% of the country's inhabitants will have the opportunity to see this event. The end of the long journey of the Olympic flame will be the grand opening of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
OLYMPIC VENUES
Sports venues the organizers divided into four zones: Copacabana, Maracana, Deodoro and Barra.
Copacabana as one of the most famous beaches in the world will be an area predominantly for aquatic species. There will be medals in sailing, open water swimming, triathlon, rowing, as well as cycling (highway), walking and marathon.
Maracana zone named after its central sports facility- famous football stadium. It is at the Maracana stadium that the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games, as well as football competitions, will be held. Other facilities in this zone include the Maracanizinho volleyball arena and the Joao Havelange stadium, where athletes will perform.
Former military base Deodoro as planned by the organizers for the duration of the Games, it will become a competitive zone where medals in equestrian sports, modern pentathlon, fencing, rowing slalom, cycling (BMX, mountain bike) and shooting will be played.
The largest and most competitive area in Rio will be Barra. Within its boundaries will be located: the Olympic Arena (art and gymnastics, trampolining), Olympic tennis center, swimming pool "Maria Lenk" (water polo, diving), water sports center (swimming, synchronized swimming), Riotsentr (boxing, badminton, table tennis, weightlifting), Olympic halls 1-4 (taekwondo, judo, wrestling, basketball, handball), golf center, velodrome.
Except sports grounds Barra is home to the Olympic Park and Olimpic village, as well as press and television centers.
Before the opening of the Olympic Games, by sports standards, the wait is not so long - less than a year! In some sports, the struggle for tickets to the main starts of the four-year period is already in full swing. It is too early to talk about possible results and make any predictions. However, fans of the Russian team believe that very soon the next Olympic Games will write new Russian names in the history of world sports.
AND two-time champion world cross country Emily Chebet. Four leaders of the Kenya Athletic Federation were suspended by the IAAF in November 2015 on suspicion of financial and doping fraud. In May 2016, the World Anti-Doping Agency declared the Kenya Anti-Doping Agency "non-compliant". Seven coaches and agents in Kenya have been charged with facilitating the doping of Kenyan athletes. In June, the IOC obligated the international federations of the respective sports to admit Kenyan athletes to the Olympic Games individually, after passing additional anti-doping tests. At the end of July, the head of the Kenyan National Olympic Committee, Kipchoge Keino, announced that Kenyan athletes would pass drug tests "without any problems."
Russia
On July 3, the Russian Olympic Committee and 68 Russian athletes filed a lawsuit with the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne (CAS). The hearing of the case was scheduled for July 19, the CAS verdict was announced on July 21 - Russian athletes were not allowed to compete at the Olympics.
Russian athletes qualified for the Olympics
First Russian athlete, admitted to the Olympics on an individual basis, was the runner Yulia Stepanova. The IAAF message said that the athlete would be able to compete not under the Russian, but under the Olympic flag. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) asked that Yulia Stepanova be admitted to the Olympics, due to the fact that the athlete and her husband Vitaly Stepanov, who left for the United States, are recognized as important informants for the anti-doping agency. However, on July 24, the IOC did not allow Stepanova to the Games, as she had previously been convicted of doping.
The rights to speak at the Games were sought by another 80 Russian athletes. The IAAF rejected all relevant entries for international competition except for one, from long jumper Daria Klishina. She was the only athlete who was able to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro under Russian flag.
Weightlifters
Azerbaijan
After 7 Azerbaijani weightlifters were disqualified due to positive results in doping tests in different competitions, the Azerbaijani team lost two Olympic licenses, and having dropped into team standings to 31st place, in general of all licenses.
Bulgaria
In March 2015, the Bulgarian weightlifting team in in full force was disqualified after 11 team members tested positive. In the autumn of the same year, the International Federation weightlifting prevented Bulgarian weightlifters from participating in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and in January 2016 the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the IWF suspension decision and rejected the appeal of the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation.
Russia
The International Weightlifting Federation has disqualified the entire Russian team. Thus, Russian weightlifters are completely excluded from participation in the 2016 Olympics.
The Republic of Kazakhstan
On June 24, 2016, the executive committee and congress of the International Weightlifting Federation deprived Kazakhstan of one male and one female license for the upcoming Olympic Games.
On June 25, 2016, by the decision of the disciplinary commission of the International Weightlifting Federation, Kazakhstani weightlifters were disqualified: Almas Uteshov (with deprivation of medals) and Yermek Omirtai for four years, Zhasulan Kydyrbaev (with deprivation of medals) for eight years. Banned anabolic androgenic steroids were found in the doping samples of these athletes during the World Championships in Houston. The Russian men's team in Belarus was disqualified due to doping
The Belarusian men's rowing and canoeing team has been disqualified for doping violations and will not compete at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. On July 16, a message was received that the Executive Committee of the International Canoe Federation (ICF) is suspending the Belarusian men's kayaking and canoeing team, including coaches, medical and support staff, from international competitions for a period of one year. Sports arbitration court in Lausanne (CAS) rejected the claim of the Belarusian national rowing and canoeing team for the disqualification of the team by the International Rowing Federation. The reason was the decision of the International Canoe Federation on the redistribution of Olympic quotas of July 18, 2016.
