The 2016 Summer Olympics (Games of the XXXI Olympiad of the modern era) are celebrated in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The venue of the competition was chosen on 2 October 2009 and announced by Jacques Rogge, at the 121st session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
These Summer Olympics are the first to be held in South America and the third to be held in the southern hemisphere, following those in Melbourne in 1956 and the Sydney in 2000. It is also the first Olympic Games to be held in a Portuguese-speaking country.
The Games take place from 5 to 21 August 2016 and more than 11,000 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participating in this sporting event. The Games will feature 28 sports - including rugby sevens and golf, added by the IOC in 2009.
These sporting events are held in 33 different locations in 4 different areas of the city, namely: Barra, Copacabana, Deodoro and Maracanã.
The overall budget of the organizing committee for Rio 2016, including costs of actions taken prior to the bid phase, amounts to 7.4 billion réals8. It does not include the cost of acquisition, renovation or construction of infrastructure and buildings supported by the federal and local government, or by privés9 operators.
Global investments outside the organizing committee, initially planned in the application to 28.5 billion reais were revised in 2016 to 36,600,000,000. They break down mainly investments for the construction of the Olympic Park (5.6 billion) and transport infrastructure (24 billion) 10.
In preparation for the Summer Olympic Games 2016, a tram built by Alstom has been set up with three new lines connected to other modes of transport that will improve traffic in the city center of Rio and will reduce pollution. Sunday, June 5, 2016, Alstom has celebrated with the concessionaire VLT Carioca and the city of Rio de Janeiro, the commissioning of the line tramway.11
The logo of the 2016 Olympics is three silhouettes of yellow-orange, blue and green (the colors of the Brazilian flag), standing by hand to form a round, symbolizing the union and movement. The logo is based on four pillars, each of which is "contagious energy, harmonious diversity, exuberant nature and the Olympic spirit." 12 Its silhouette evokes the Sugar Loaf, symbolic monument of the city.
The logo was designed by the Brazilian agency Tatil13 (based in Rio de Janeiro). A competition was held to choose the design of the logo, 139 agencies participated.
The official logo for the Rio 2016 Games was unveiled on 31 December 2010, on the occasion of New Year celebrations on Copacabana Beach, in the presence of IOC President Jacques Rogge.
This logo has caused controversy about a possible plagiarism logo of a US charitable foundation, the Telluride Foundation, or to have greatly inspired painting The Dance Henri Matisse14. The director of the agency Tatil admits some similarities but says that their proposal "is radically different because it is three-dimensional"
