Dateset of the Day: Summer Olympics 2016 Rio de Janeiro!!

October 5th, 2009by Emily Sciarillo

Well its official, Rio has beat out Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo, Prague, Baku and Doha to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Many are happy to see a country other than the regulars get the honor. Of the four countries that made it to the final round, Japan has hosted three previous Olympics, the US eight, and Spain one.

The map below shows the locations of all the past and currently planned Olympics (included are those that were canceled due to WWI and WWII). The first Olympics was in 1896 in Athens. Before the Rio decision, no country in Latin America or Africa has ever hosted one.

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This next map shows the number of medals per country in the 2008 Winter Olympics in China.

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This last map shows the expected locations of the competition venues in Rio for 2016.

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2 Responses to “Dateset of the Day: Summer Olympics 2016 Rio de Janeiro!!”

  1. koko Says:
    October 9th, 2009 at 1:13 am

    Thanks foe sharing the maps

  2. maptune Says:
    October 24th, 2009 at 4:48 am

    thnx for Olympic Locations map

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