Countdown To The Olympics

After Swimming and Athletics specials, it is Judo turn. Part of the Olympic Programme since Tokyo 1964, the traditional sport of Japanese origin continues to gain followers in the entire planet and offers unforgettable stories in the greatest sporting event in the planet.
 

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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.
 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This Monday 30 January the Rio 2016™ Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games has started the Recruitment Process of Sports Competition Leaders, highly qualified professionals who will be heading all the operation of the 28 Olympic and 22 Paralympic sports during the planet’s biggest event in 2016.

With an eye on the sports legacy for the country, the priority of the Rio 2016™ will be Brazilian professionals.

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“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.

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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.

The next edition of the Olympic Games will feature three weight categories: 48kg to 51kg, 57kg to 60kg, and 69kg to 75kg. Countries such as China, Ireland and Canada are the gold medal favourites. Their athletes have reached the top of the podium in the three categories, respectively, in the latest World Championship in 2010.

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