Most-sought sports events at Rio 2016 are football, basketball, volleyball and track and field. The Olympic Games will take place from August 05 to 21.
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The trademark of the Moroccan airline will be on the game-day jerseys of Santos Futebol Clube starting in 2016. The partnership was announced this Friday (11th) and was being negotiated since the middle of the year.
The measure will remain in force during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The nationalities to enjoy the benefit will be defined by the ministries of Tourism, Justice and Foreign Relations.
World Championship will take place in Doha, Qatar, starting next Thursday (22nd). The country will take its largest delegation to date to the event, with 40 competitors.
Licensed products with the Rio 2016 brand will be made available for internet sales in other countries in February. The Organizing Committee expects to sell a total of 50 million items.
Atentaddo VE has won an Arabian horses-only race last Monday evening at São Paulo’s Jockey Club. The horse had come out the victor in last year’s race as well.
The country already hosted the 2009 and 2010 editions of the tournament and now was chosen again by Fifa. The last two editions occurred in Morocco.
Racing for the X-raid team, Nasser Al-Attiyah secured his second win at the event last Saturday. He had already won with Volkswagen in 2011.
Registration to attend the 2016 Olympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro, is available starting today on the event’s website. Buyers will be selected via a lottery system similar to the one used during the FIFA World Cup.
Law firm Carlezzo Advogados Associados, from São Paulo, has opened its first international unit in the United Arab Emirates, specializing on intermediating deals between teams in the Gulf and South America.
The country has signed an agreement to pass on its experience in hosting the event to Russia, where the Cup will be held in 2018, and was visited by officials from Qatar, which is set to host the championship in 2022.
The country has held its position in a ranking from Britain’s Sportcal consulting firm, which measures the number of major sports events hosted by each country. Rio de Janeiro is hosting the 2016 Olympics.
The organization announced that it is considering holding the event in 2022 during winter in the Arab country. The issue was discussed at a meeting of FIFA executives and delegates from international football federations.
Fabiana Murer and Augusto Dutra are competing in pole vault and Jonathan Henrique da Silva in the triple jump at the IAAF Continental Cup.
