Olympic games: the race for 2016
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The International Olympic Committee selected Rio de Janeiro as host city of the 2016 Olympic Games at a meeting in Copenhagen on October 2
Rio wins the 2016 Olympics
Rio will have the luxury of hosting the 2016 Olympic Games two years after staging football’s World Cup, after the International Olympic Committee delivered an astonishing snub to President Obama by eliminating Chicago in the first round of voting
Cities face Olympics finishing line
Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, will on Friday open an envelope, take out a card and with due ceremony read out the name of the city that has won the right to stage the Olympics in 2016
Olympic brand continues marketing potency
The rapid growth of the IOC’s so-called TOP worldwide sponsorship programme has slowed markedly but overall the famous five-ring logo has never generated more income than at present
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