RIO Olympic Games 2016 Facts

WALT: Understand how the olympic values are demonstrated in Rio. 

1. The Summer Olympic Games 2016 will take place from 5th to 21st August in Rio de Janeiro

2. It will be the first Olympic Games ever held in South America

3. The first Olympic Games (Olympic Games of the antiquity) were held in 776 in Olympia (Greek) and the first Olympic Games of the modern era in 1896 in Athens (Greek)

4. Golf (returning after 112 years) and Rugby (returning after 92 years) will be the “new” sports of the Olympic Games

5. The opening and the closing ceremony will take place in the Maracanã Stadium

 

S.C  When the New Zealand women and the American women, when they tripped over they kept going but when the New Zealand women