XXXI summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro began, in fact, even before the opening ceremony. 3 and 4 August have passed the qualifying matches for men’s and women’s teams in football. August 5, held competitions among archers have the new Olympic and world record. The shooter from South Korea scored 700 points in the 720 possible surpass the achievement of his fellow countryman lim Dong Hyun (They Tone June), surpassing his score by 1 point.
The opening ceremony
And that’s even before the opening ceremony, pretty budget (spent about $ 20 million), but still entertaining. The show lasted just over 40 minutes (the rest time of 3 hours and 20 minutes took procession of the teams and speeches by officials). Before the visitors swept the history of Brazil: from its discovery by Portuguese sailors, the times when slaves worked on plantations of sugar cane, the wave of migration from Europe and Asia, the construction of large cities. Before the audience was the main musical face of the country. People who have seen Brazilian carnivals, it is not very impressed. Noticed something else: in this colorful show intertwined sports and environmental motives: it was a lot of green, the Olympic rings were made up of “trees”, and before each team carried the little seedlings.
Fans of the famous Brazilian footballer Pele was disappointed. He could not take part in the ceremony of lighting the Olympic flame at the right condition. And that honor went to a marathon runner Vanderley the Cordeira di Lima.
Records
For the first two days of Games have been played 26 sets of medals. 12 of them went to the United States, leading in this moment in the medal standings. It was quite expected. What is more interesting is updated several Olympic and world records.
So, the Chinese weightlifter LUN Cincuan won the gold medal, winning in the category up to 56 kg with a total of 307 kg (137 in the snatch and 170 in clean and jerk). The previous world record set at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000, Turk Halil Mutlu (total score of 305 kg).
American swimmer Katie Ledecky won a victory, having overcome a distance of 400 meters freestyle 3 minutes 56,46 C. the Previous record (3 min of 58.37 (C) also belonged to Ledecky, she set it in 2014.
The representative of great Britain’s Adam Peaty won qualifying heat in the 100-meter breaststroke with the result 57,13 S. He also got the gold medal.
Swede Sarah Sjostrom became the best in the world for cutting 100-meter butterfly, a new world record is now 55,48 S.
Hungarian athlete Katinka Hosszu won the gold medal at the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro in complex swimming on the 400m, setting a world record – 4 minutes of 26.36 S. Old belonged to the Chinese E Seven (4 minutes 28,43).
Women’s national team of Australian swimming cate Campbell, Brittany elmslie, Emma Mackeon and Bronte Campbell) in the final of the relay 4 by 100 meters won with a time of 3 min 30,65 S. Previous world record was 3 min 30,98 with his Australian established in 2014.
Famous American swimmer Michael Phelps, winner of seven world records, still has not renewed the best time in any of their favorite disciplines (100 m and 200 m butterfly,400 m complex, relay 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 4 x 200 m freestyle, medley relay 4 x 100 m). But still he now he owns a new record for number of medals won at the Olympic Games. Team USA won gold in the relay 4 × 100-meter freestyle, Phelps was the only one in the history of the 19-time Olympic champion (23 medals of all colours).
There is a unique achievement and our athletes. Russian volleyball player Ekaterina Kosyanenko set a record for the Olympic Games according to the number of aces in one game. In the game against a team of Argentina she made 8 aces. In that match, Russia won all three sets.
Serious injuries
French gymnast said AIT was injured, performing vault in the qualifying for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Upon landing AIT broke his left leg.
Riders Vincenzo nibali (Italy) and Sergio Ana (Colombia) earned the fractures during the group race. Both were in the top three with pole Rafal t-Shirt, but fell at high speed and lost all chances of a medal at these Games. Have Nibali fractures of both clavicles, Ana – fracture of the pelvis.
In women’s Cycling, not too quiet. Racer from the Netherlands Annemiek van Vleuten not lost control and flew over the curb of the track. As a result, she received a traumatic brain injury and a triple fracture of the spine.
Curiosities
This story happened before the opening of the Olympics. During a training swim, one of the kayakers ran into an old sofa. As he was in the area of the route, is still unknown. But the case has become a source of many jokes and memes.
And what about Russia?
The Russian team is currently ranked seventh in the medal standings with five medals. The gold medal brought us the Beslan Mudranov (judo, 60 kg), two silver – Vitalina Bazarkina (pneumatic pistol, 10m), Tuyana Dashidorzhieva, Inna Stepanova and Ksenia Perova (archery, team) and two bronze – Natalia Kuzyutina (judo under 52 kg) and Timur Safin (rapier).
Meanwhile it became known that the international Paralympic Committee intends to suspend the national team of Russia at full strength from the Paralympic games due to start on 7 September. This decision was taken based on the report of the world anti-doping Agency, in which Russia was accused of carrying out a state policy consisting in promoting the use of doping. The head of the IPC Philip Craven pointed to the presence of incontrovertible evidence of this. It is noteworthy that nobody makes. And informed the IOC who have studied the same report, made the Russian national team to the Games in Rio de Janeiro. He transferred to the international federations the right to make the decision. In the end, to participate in the competition were allowed 278 of our athletes.
