Olympic (Aug 5 – Aug 21/Brazil)

This year the 2016 Summer Olympics also commonly known as Rio 2016 will be held from August 5 to August 21 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where more than 10,500 athletes from 206 countries will compete in 28 Olympic sports. With the motto “Viva Sua Paixao” translating “Live your passion”; the games will be held in total 38 venues around 5 cities of Brazil – Rio (the host city), Sau Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Brasilia and Manaus. The athletes to look for this year would be the American swimmer Michael Phelps who came out of retirement to participate and to add on to his impressive tally of 22 Olympic medals in three years along with Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt who is the reigning Olympic Champion in the 100m, 200m and 400m relay and has six Olympic gold medal. He is also the world record holder of finishing 100m in 9.58s since automatic time measurement became mandatory in 1977. As far as Bangladesh is concerned, no athlete has ever qualified since we have started participating as wildcard entry in 1988 Seoul Olympic but Siddikur Rahman, the golfer is giving Bangladesh a glimmer of hope as he is currently in 54th spot in the list of Olympic field team for golf where 60 golfers can qualify. The major events like men’s 100m (15th August: 7.25 am BST) will be telecasted on the wee hours of early morning due to time difference in Bangladesh.