Winter Olympiс Games

The President of the Rio 2016™ Olympic and Paralympic Organising Committee, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, received this Thursday 15 May, in London, the Personality of the Year Award given by the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and the Brazilian Embassy in the United Kingdom.

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The Olympic Week 2012, which aims to celebrate the foundation anniversary of the International Olympic Committee, will happen in all Brazilian regions beginning this Tuesday 15 May. The municipality of Serra, in the state of Espírito Santo, will stage the first activities. The event, a partnership between the Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC) and the State Secretariat for Sport and Leisure, will gather students and teachers of Espírito Santo schools for a varied agenda that includes sport, cultural and educational activities.

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It took only ten minutes and three torch bearers for the newly-lit flame of London 2012 Olympic Games to be delivered to a Brazilian official. The President of the Rio 2016™ Olympic and Paralympic Organising Committee and Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC), Carlos Arthur Nuzman, was the fourth person to carry the flame today 10 May, in the Greek city of Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympic Games.

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It took only ten minutes and three torch bearers for the newly-lit flame of London 2012 Olympic Games to be delivered to a Brazilian official. The President of the Rio 2016™ Olympic and Paralympic Organising Committee and Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC), Carlos Arthur Nuzman, was the fourth person to carry the flame today 10 May, in the Greek city of Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympic Games.

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London’s Olympic Stadium has welcomed competitive sport for the first time, as the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Athletics Championships were held at the Olympic venue from 4-7 May.

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The court is the same size, the basket is at the same height and diameter, and the ball is also the same. The sweating uniforms, the free throw and the three point shot are identical. The victory will be there when the stopwatch stops. But there is something that does not exist in the Olympic Games: the duel in wheelchairs.

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Secretary General of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), Patrick Baumann, has held nearly all positions inside and outside a court. He has been a Basketball player and a referee in Italy; a supervisor and a referee trainer in Switzerland, his home country; he has completed a Basketball coaching course, coached a youth team, organised tournaments and ran youth Basketball clinics before being offered a position at the FIBA headquarters in Germany in April 1994.

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A millimetric assist, a slam dunk, a buzzer-beater, an alley-oop, an unimaginable shot… The Basketball passion is part of the daily lives of millions of fans all over the globe, but only every four years the dream comes true: the Olympic gold medal. For one specific country, however, with its uncountable stars in the Basketball court, that means more than a challenge. It is show time. Not even the sky is the limit.

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Tickets for the London 2012 football tournament have gone back on sale, following the draws that were made for the men’s and women’s preliminary stages last week.

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Between the years 2008 and 2009, Argentinian Mario Cilenti travelled a distance of six and a half laps around Planet Earth. He visited over 50 countries in 15 months. He visited the five continents. He spoke to head of government, leaders of the Olympic Movement, athletes and personalities. He had only one goal: to convince the world that Rio de Janeiro deserved to become the first city in South America to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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