The Sports activities Archives – 2016 Rio Olympics Half 1: Overview/Rankings

The official emblem of the 2016 Summer time Olympics. It includes a trendy tackle the standard Olympic insignia, with some modern motifs accenting comradery.

The official conclusion to the 2016 Summer time Olympics (or, as it’s extra extensively and popularly identified, Rio 2016) has lately arrived, and collaborating nations are headed residence with proud rivals, a lot of whom are celebrating proud victory at this vaunted competitors. As beforehand implied, this 12 months’s Summer time Olympics befell in Rio de Janeiro (actually, “Metropolis of January” in Portuguese), probably the most populated cities in South America and positioned alongside the coast of Brazil. The competition was fairly beholden all over the world, however simply in case you’ll have missed it (or are viewing this from the longer term), right here lies protection of some key happenings and attention-grabbing tidbits that befell amid this athletic competitors of countries.

Featured Occasions

The 2016 Summer time Olympics featured a staggering 306 occasions throughout 28 distinctive sports activities, together with biking, archery, boxing, taking pictures, numerous completely different aquatic actions, judo, gymnastics, handball, volleyball, and weightlifting (and that’s barely scratching the floor)! Along with these sports activities traditionally included within the Olympic Video games, 2 newcomer sports activities additionally utilized and have been accepted for inclusion on this 12 months’s competitors: golf and rugby sevens.

            Featured Opponents

Phelps is a famend Olympic swimmer, significantly amongst his residence nation of the U.S.

Hundreds of athletes finally participated in Olympic occasions in Rio, however not all of them introduced residence as many medals as the highest rivals of this season! Among the many notable athletes based mostly on efficiency and collected awards are

• Michael Phelpsfrom the U.S. for Swimming
• Usain Bolt from Jamaica for Monitor and Area
• Katinka Hosszú from Hungary for Swimming

Full segments on these athletes will comply with the discharge of this overview within the coming week.

Different athletes taking residence some medals embody Simone Biles (noteworthy U.S. competitor with 4 golds and 1 bronze for Gymnastics), Jason Kenny (of the U.Ok. with 3 golds for Monitor Biking) and gold-winner Gabriel Barbosa (Brazil’s very personal soccer athlete).

Golf has made its method into the Summer time Olympic rotation this 12 months!

            High 10 Nationwide Rankings as of August 21, 2016

Over 200 member nations of the Worldwide Olympic Committee competed on this summer season’s Olympic Video games. Roughly 87 Nationwide Olympic Committee groups acquired medals following all occasions, nearly all of which introduced residence at the very least one gold medal. The High 10 competing nations on this season are ranked as follows:

1. United States, with 46 Gold, 37 Silver, and 38 Bronze
2. Nice Britain, with 27 Gold, 23 Silver, and 17 Bronze
3. China, with 26 Gold, 18 Silver, and 26 Bronze
4. Russia, with 19 Gold, 18 Silver, and 19 Bronze
5. Germany, with 17 Gold, 10 Silver, and 15 Bronze
6. Japan, with 12 Gold, 8 Silver, and 21 Bronze
7. France, with 10 Gold, 8 Silver, and 14 Bronze
8. South Korea, with 9 Gold, 3 Silver, and 9 Bronze
9. Italy, with 8 Gold, 12 Silver, and 8 Bronze
10. Australia, with 8 Gold, 11 Silver, and 10 Bronze

Worldwide cooperation and cultural change is of nice significance within the trendy world. It’s agreeable that sports activities and athletic custom have helped inspire higher world unity.

*It’s value noting that, though some nations collected extra total medals, placement of others ensured increased total rank.

The nation that collected probably the most medals this 12 months was the United States, with 121 complete medals.