Olympic Games 2016

The Olympic Games are the world’s biggest sporting spectacle. This year the Olympic Games are held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from the 5th to the 21st of August 2016. Rio was first discovered in 1502 by Portuguese explorers, who believed the bay they encountered (now called Guanabara Bay) was the mouth of a river.

There are forty-two sports represented in the Olympic Games some are: Judo, Fencing, Taekwondo and some other ones. I am looking forward to watching the Olympic Games because I want to see the different sports that aren’t done in New Zealand. There are 207 nations competing in the Olympic Games. There are over 10,000 athletes participating in this year’s Olympics.