Rio 2016 Sam Manchester will guide you through the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Your information is used only to deliver messages about the Rio 2016 Olympics. Rio showed Brazil’s best side to the world, and its Olympic debut as a host went off without a glitch. Here’s hoping it’s a harbinger for the rest of these Summer Games, the first held in a South American nation. Nearly 300 of them will compete in Rio, but 100 others were barred from the Games because they were linked to a state-sponsored doping program.

Source: New York Times August 06, 2016 17:48 UTC