was an international multi-sport event that was held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August.

The 2016 summer Olympic games begin in exactly 500 days and host city Rio de Janeiro is still in the thick ... to be completed on time, many even before the end of this year.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CNN)-- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games ... Olympics will have happened just four years before 2016. "Although there's no rule against it ...

Maracanã Stadium, which held the opening and closing ceremonies and several of the Rio Olympics' biggest events, is abandoned and plagued by looters, and Julio de ... the Olympic Park's troubles ...

the two major temporary venues in the Barra Olympic Park. The legacy plan was created by the Eduardo Paes administration, but immediately after the Olympics Rio de Janeiro saw a political transition.

In seeking to host the Summer Olympics, Brazil promised “green games for a blue planet.” It pledged to clean up waterways around future Olympic sites, including a lagoon in front of the ...

The Olympic athletes said "I do" earlier this month after getting engaged during the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Lindsay ... heritage — on October 12, before walking down the aisle ...