Welcome to the 2016 Summer Olympics

twitter.com Rio de Janeiro is hosting the 2016 Olympic Games and has recently become the trendiest and most desirable city in the southern hemisphere, the cariocas are so lucky to live in Rio de Janeiro, a city that has the sexiest beach in South America (Copacabana) a place where you can find the most exotic looking women and the tiniest bikinis ever made. A city full of color, culture, excitement and beautiful people GO RIO!!

For more news & videos visit ?english.ntdtv.com Tourists arrive in Rio de Janeiro as the city wraps up preparations for the New Year. The big attraction is the New Year’s party on scenic Copacabana beach, with an impressive fireworks display planned. Thousands of tourists have already arrived in Rio de Janeiro, to celebrate 2011 in the city’s famous New Year’s party at Copacabana beach. Two million partygoers, dressed in traditional white, are expected to come here to watch the 20-minute fireworks show. It’s going to be a globally televised fireworks display. Some 25 tons of explosives, distributed among 11 rafts along the shore of the two-and-a-half mile beach, will mark the height of the night. Brazil’s Hotel Association says 90 percent of Rio’s 29-thousand hotel rooms were already occupied by Christmas Eve. This is an increase from last year. [Antonio Pedro Mello, Rio de Janeiro's Tourism Secretary] “We managed to anticipate this holiday season, during which Rio de Janeiro already has a large number of tourists here for the New Year.” Hundreds of workers are hurrying to finish setting up health centers and four stages that will host concerts on that special night. [Carla Santiago, Tourist]: “I am very excited, but also worried about the violence that we saw on the news and on the media. But, I am confident.” Last month, drug gangs launched a wave of violence in the city. 46 people were found dead when police and Army officials seized a notorious slum in the northern …

Lightning of the cauldron, final part & fireworks

This is Ty Loomis’ video from the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is the Beach Volleyball Gold Medal Match between Ty Loomis (USA) & Hans Stolfus(USA) vs Emanuel Rego (BRA) & Ricardo Santos (BRA). Emanuel & Ricardo were the defending Olympic Gold Medalist & were currently the #1 team in the World for 6 years straight. The Gold Medal Match was in Copacabana, Brazil, in Copacabana Arena. It was their home country, their home stadium, in front of 7500 chanting, dancing, heckling, screaming fans that were all cheering for Brazil in the 2nd largest International Olympic Format Event. This was an awesome tournament in Brazil&, all the fans were amazing & we were stoked to be apart of this. Check it out now! -Ty Loomis Pro Beach Volleyball Player

Brazil wins the cities of Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago. Brazil will host the Olympics Rio 2016 – Olympic and Paralympic Games ——————————— Brasil ganha das cidades de Madri, Tokio e Chicago. Brasil vai sediar uma Olimpíada Rio 2016 – Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos

Only a few weeks after Rio won its bid to host the Olympics Games in 2016, crime levels have become a major concern after a police helicopter was shot down. Since then, almost 50 people have been killed in clashes between police and rival drug gangs.

With the IOC set to vote on whether Sevens will be played at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, we meet up with Brazil’s women’s Sevens team, who competed at the World Cup earlier this year.

thanks Moroni.

I do not own any rights to this video, all rights belong to Zuffa. On August 27, 2011 at UFC 134 in Brazil, Forrest Griffin will fight Mauricio “Shogun” Rua in a rematch from UFC 76: Knockout. Music: “Sons of War” – Two Steps From Hell

Brazil (pronounced /br??z?l/ ( listen); Portuguese: Brasil, IPA: [b?a?ziw]), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil, listen (help·info)), is the largest country in South America. It is the world’s fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of over 7491 kilometers (4655 mi). It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana; on the northwest by Colombia; on the west by Bolivia and Peru; on the southwest by Argentina and Paraguay and on the south by Uruguay. Numerous archipelagos form part of Brazilian territory, such as Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Saint Peter and Paul Rocks, and Trindade and Martim Vaz. It has borders with all other South American countries apart from Ecuador and Chile. Brazil was a colony of Portugal from the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 until 1815, when it was elevated to United Kingdom with Portugal and Algarves. The colonial bond was in fact broken in 1808, when the capital of the Portuguese Kingdom was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, after Napoleon invaded Portugal. The independence from Portugal was achieved in 1822. Initially independent as the Empire of Brazil, the country has been a republic since 1889, although the …