Countdown To The Olympics » Rio 2016 http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Notice – International contest for the selection of the Rio 2016™ Olympic Games golf course design http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/notice-international-contest-for-the-selection-of-the-rio-2016-olympic-games-golf-course-design-3/ http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/notice-international-contest-for-the-selection-of-the-rio-2016-olympic-games-golf-course-design-3/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:09 +0000 CazBandit http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/notice-international-contest-for-the-selection-of-the-rio-2016-olympic-games-golf-course-design-3/

The Rio 2016™ Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games has completed the interview stage of the phase three in the international contest for the selection of the Rio 2016™ Olympic Games golf course design.

Rio 2016™ was extremely pleased with the high quality of the eight proposals submitted.

The contest winner and the design will be announced in March upon the visit of the International Olympic Committee to Rio de Janeiro for the fifth Rio 2016™ project review meeting.
 

]]> http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/notice-international-contest-for-the-selection-of-the-rio-2016-olympic-games-golf-course-design-3/feed/ 0 THE WARRIORS OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT: Taekwondo http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-taekwondo-2/ http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-taekwondo-2/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:09 +0000 CazBandit http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-taekwondo-2/ Taekwondo is a traditional Korean martial art, which means “the way of kicking and punching”. The origin of the art of Taekkyon (“foot-hand”) dates back to Korea’s Three-Kingdom era (c.50 BC).

The evolution of taekwondo has made today’s version of the sport a lower limb kicking ballet. Although practitioners are allowed to use their fists to beat the competitor, attacks are mainly by kicking, taekwondo’s trademark.

]]> http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-taekwondo-2/feed/ 0 THE WARRIORS OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT: Wrestling http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-wrestling-2/ http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-wrestling-2/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:09 +0000 CazBandit http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-wrestling-2/ Cave pictures dating back to the year 3000 BC attest it: with the exception of athletics, wrestling is recognised as the oldest competitive sport in the history of humankind. Running and fighting are part of human nature. No wonder they were included in the Olympic Movement at the inception of the Ancient Olympics.

]]> http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-wrestling-2/feed/ 0 THE WARRIORS OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT: Boxing http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-boxing-2/ http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-boxing-2/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:09 +0000 CazBandit http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-boxing-2/ The 108th. anniversary of boxing as a sport that integrates the Olympic programme will be celebrated with a female touch. At London 2012 women will compete for medals for the first time in the “noble art”, one of the oldest types of sports.

]]> http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-boxing-2/feed/ 0 TRANSCARIOCA: Check out the evolution of the freeway construction works over the last year http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/transcarioca-check-out-the-evolution-of-the-freeway-construction-works-over-the-last-year-2/ http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/transcarioca-check-out-the-evolution-of-the-freeway-construction-works-over-the-last-year-2/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:09 +0000 CazBandit http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/transcarioca-check-out-the-evolution-of-the-freeway-construction-works-over-the-last-year-2/ Watch the following video and check out the evolution of Transcarioca BRT construction works between January, 2011 and January, 2012.  Important parts of the route, such as the cable-stayed bridge in Ayrton Senna and the underground passageway of Alvorada and Campinho, had significant progress during the last year.

]]> http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/transcarioca-check-out-the-evolution-of-the-freeway-construction-works-over-the-last-year-2/feed/ 0 THE WARRIORS OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT: Boxing, Wrestling and Taekwondo http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-boxing-wrestling-and-taekwondo-2/ http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-boxing-wrestling-and-taekwondo-2/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:09 +0000 CazBandit http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-boxing-wrestling-and-taekwondo-2/

Together with Judo, Wrestling, Boxing and Taekwondo represent martial arts in the Olympic Movement. This week Rio 2016™ is paying homage to some of the most traditional sports in the Olympic programme.

Wrestling, divided into Men’s and Women’s Freestyle and Men’s Greco-Roman, is known as one of the world’s oldest competitive sports, as much as Athletics.

]]> http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/the-warriors-of-the-olympic-movement-boxing-wrestling-and-taekwondo-2/feed/ 0 Rio 2016™ announces Nissan as automotive sponsor of the Olympic Games in Rio http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/rio-2016-announces-nissan-as-automotive-sponsor-of-the-olympic-games-in-rio/ http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/rio-2016-announces-nissan-as-automotive-sponsor-of-the-olympic-games-in-rio/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:39:12 +0000 CazBandit http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/rio-2016-announces-nissan-as-automotive-sponsor-of-the-olympic-games-in-rio/ The Rio 2016™ Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games has announced that Nissan has become the automotive sponsor of the Rio 2016™ Olympic Games. The carmaker is now the Games’ fifth tier one partner and the sixth domestic sponsor overall.

]]> http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/rio-2016-announces-nissan-as-automotive-sponsor-of-the-olympic-games-in-rio/feed/ 0 GAMES MAKERS: Regina Oliveira, Transport Director http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/games-makers-regina-oliveira-transport-director-3/ http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/games-makers-regina-oliveira-transport-director-3/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:00:09 +0000 CazBandit http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/games-makers-regina-oliveira-transport-director-3/

“The greatest tangible legacy of the Rio 2016™ Olympic and Paralympic Games will be in transport”. Regina Oliveira summarizes with this sentence her responsibility and her work ahead of one of the most complex operations of the biggest sporting event in the planet.

]]> http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/games-makers-regina-oliveira-transport-director-3/feed/ 0 Fighting spirit: Cuba and the Judo tradition http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/fighting-spirit-cuba-and-the-judo-tradition-5/ http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/fighting-spirit-cuba-and-the-judo-tradition-5/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:00:09 +0000 CazBandit http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/fighting-spirit-cuba-and-the-judo-tradition-5/ The Republic of Cuba, insular territory of the Caribbean Sea, Central America, has few more than 11 million inhabitants. It is less than a third of the metropolitan area population of Tokyo, capital of Japan, home of Judo and the major power of the sport. Counting men and women, Cuban judokas are no more than 3,000. In the last edition of the Olympic Games, in Beijing 2008, from the seven weight categories, Cuban female athletes climbed the podium in four categories. Japonese female athletes climbed in five.
 

]]> http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/fighting-spirit-cuba-and-the-judo-tradition-5/feed/ 0 Mammadli and a country in kimono: the gold medal of Azerbaijan http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/mammadli-and-a-country-in-kimono-the-gold-medal-of-azerbaijan-6/ http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/mammadli-and-a-country-in-kimono-the-gold-medal-of-azerbaijan-6/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:00:09 +0000 CazBandit http://www.countdowntotheolympics.com/index.php/2012/02/mammadli-and-a-country-in-kimono-the-gold-medal-of-azerbaijan-6/

The wrestling tradition in Azerbaijan, multi-medallist in boxing and Freestyle and Greco-Roman disciplines since its independence from Soviet Union, in 1991, started its expansion. Since Beijing 2008, the glow of the new Olympic champion made the population wear kimonos and turn its eyes to Elnur Mammadli’s Judo, who instantly became a star with the achievement.

His gold medal in the 66-73kg category and the bronze medal of Movlud Miraliyev (90-100kg) were Azerbaijan first podiums in the sport.

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