which country will host the 2016 olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics are commonly known as Rio 2016, as this competition will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The host city of Rio de Janeiro was announced at the 121st IOC Session held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009.The other finalists were Madrid, Spain; Chicago, United States; and Tokyo, Japan.Rio will become the first South American city to host the Summer Olympics, the second city in Latin America to host the event after Mexico City in 1968, and the first since 2000 to be held in the Southern Hemisphere.he 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olimpicos olÃ­mpicos De verao verÃ£o), de 2016 officially known As the games OF The, xxxi olympiad are-the Thirty First Summer, olympic games'the world s largest-international multi sport event that is held every. four years