In every Summer Olympics since 1952,with two exceptions,the host country has won not only more golds but also more medals than it did in the previous summer games.Japan,who hosted this year's games,won far more medals than it got from the previous Summer Olympics in Rio in 2016.Brazil ...
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1976: Nadia Comaneci scores a perfect 10 At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect 10 in history for her performance on the uneven bars. Comaneci won three golds at the games and went on to win an additional two in Moscow...
China’s Deng Wei executed a147 kilogram (more than 324 lbs.)clean and jerk in the 63-kilogram category, setting a new world record at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Wei holds severalother world records, including a 117-kilogram lift in the 64 kilogram-lift category. You may also like:Stor...
This pattern echoed what happened in Brazil, which hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Years earlier, manyBrazilians had been excited about the event. Thereality was far different, withabandoned facilities, claims of corruption, and lost opportunitiesto remake Rio for...
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Brazil has top Olympic sailors? Who knew?(Olympics 08)There's a wall at the Santo Amaro Yacht Club with plaques to the club's sailing greats.Downie, Andrew
1976: Nadia Comaneci scores a perfect 10 At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect 10 in history for her performance on the uneven bars. Comaneci won three golds at the games and went on to win an additional two in Moscow...
The first, in 1494, gave more ter- ritory to Spain, whereupon Portugal renegotiated with the Vatican, and a papal line gave Brazil to Portugal while most of the rest of South America went to Spain. The pope, a global elite, played a legitimating role for the two empires while totally...
5. Brazil ranks the fifth in its population. There the population was 159,884,000.6. Next comes the Russian Federation, with a population of 147,105,000.7. The seventh in line is Pakistan, with an estimated population of 138,150,000.8. Japan is the country with the eighth largest ...