Rio de Janeiro 2016
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January 09, 2011
Up to two million people gathered along Copacabana Beach on New Year’s Eve for Rio 2016's logo launch. (ATR)
(ATR) On New Year’s Eve Rio de Janeiro unveiled a new emblem for ...
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January 05, 2011
A Canada-wide arrest warrant was issued for a man accused of operating a scam for tickets to the Vancouver Olympics. (Getty Images)
(ATR) Canadian Police are searching for a...
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January 07, 2011
(ATR) Just 15 months after winning the 2016 Olympics, Rio de Janeiro is on a fast-track to the Games. Rio 2016 President Carlos Arthur Nuzman speaks with ATR Editor Ed Hula ab...
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January 05, 2011
Jacques Rogge was in Rio for the 2016 logo launch and the inauguration of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. (ATR)
(ATR) IOC president Jacques Rogge tells Around the Rings w...
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January 04, 2011
Harry Redknapp and Arsene Wenger play nice before a Spurs vs. Arsenal match in November. (Getty Images)
Games Volunteerism Unites Football Rivals
Two heavyweights of Engli...
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January 03, 2011
Dilma Rousseff (left) personally offered Olympic guarantees to IOC president Jacques Rogge. (Rio 2016)
Rousseff Olympic, World Cup Pledges
Newly-inaugurated Brazilian pr...
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January 01, 2011
Fireworks projected onto the new 3-D logo for Rio 2016. (ATR)
First Three-Dimension Logo
It is a logo unlike anything before, this intertwining of three figures that mak...
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December 31, 2010
Rio 2016's new logo.
(ATR) There’s a new look to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
The new logo for the 2016 Games was revealed to the world during the massive New Year’s Eve ...
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December 31, 2010
The crowd at midday New Year's Eve at Copacabana. (ATR)
Logo Launch Before Millions
More than two million people could be on hand for the traditional New Year celebration...
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December 30, 2010
(ATR) He’s in Brazil, but hardly on holiday. IOC President Jacques Rogge visits transportation works for the Olympics and a favela that’s changing on day four of his trip to 2...
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December 30, 2010
Rogge predicts the new Rio logo will be well-liked. (ATR)
(ATR) IOC President Jacques Rogge, making his first visit to Rio de Janeiro since the 2007 Pan American Games, says ...
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December 29, 2010
(ATR) Construction of the 2016 Olympic Village is underway.
Olympic champion volleyballer Sandra Pires, Rio governor Sergio Cabral, IOC president Jacques Rogge, Rio mayor Edu...
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