The product, which has yet to be approved in the U.S., is already available and being used in India, Pakistan, and China, where the product was deployed during the Olympics games in Beijing.
Just like Eduardo Paes wants to capitalize with the Olympics games to leave a legacy and revolutionize Rio de Janeiro, I believe the Pacified Rio Cup has the potential to leave long lasting improvements in the communities.
During the Olympics Games (27 July to 12 August), sports fans in these 64 territories across Asia and Africa will be able to enjoy live coverage of the events as well as highlight clips on this digital platform - free-of-charge.
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And it appears to me that even with all the money pouring into the Olympics, the games have managed to keep the values and ideals of the movement from being overwhelmed by commercialism.
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Earlier, Judy Murray, the tennis coach and mother of US Open grand slam winner Andy Murray, called for facilities to be accessible and affordable saying there was an "enormous opportunity" on the back of the Olympics and the Commonwealth games coming up to "capture the imagination of the Scottish public".
Lord Coe led the successful bid to host the Olympics and oversaw the Games as chairman of organisers Locog.
The men's 50km event has been staged in either freestyle or classical at all 20 editions of the Winter Olympics since the inaugural Games of 1924, and this was the first time the Scandinavians failed to make the podium.
She was the team's only medallist at the 2006 Winter Olympics but at the Vancouver Games the British are being tipped for possibly their best medal haul, if they can beat the four medals won in 1924.
The Olympics and Paralympic Games get underway on July 27 and August 29 respectively.
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Salt Lake's ratings are an anomaly, since the audiences for Olympics games have been shrinking for years thanks to increased competition from a growing array of competing channels.
That's the benchmark figure from which a group of economists are starting, when they try to figure out the value of the happiness that can be generated by the Olympics and Paralympic Games this summer.
Academic Prawat Nagvajara was a cross-country skier for Thailand at both the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and the 2006 Turin Games.
Only cable subscribers and online viewers could experience one of the most exciting games of the entire Olympics.
But I'd be lying if I said the X-Games and the Winter Olympics weren't an ambition of mine.
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In 1948, London hosted the Summer Olympics, or the "Austerity Games, " as they were called for their postwar frugality and prudence.
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It's the second time a game manufacturer has created mobile games for the Olympics--a venture that requires a pricey license from the International Olympic Committee.
Fifa had initially ruled that the two crucial Group C games for the Athens Olympics be played at the same time.
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The biggest benefit the NBA can muster from the Olympics going forward: utilizing the Games as a platform to promote its young stars.
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These days she is placing large bets on Brazilian bonds, leading to the quip that although Tokyo failed to secure the 2016 Olympics, the Japanese will finance the games in Rio de Janeiro anyway.
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Asked whether he had had an opportunity to consider his options for the 2012 Olympics in London and the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, he said both events would be a "massive motivation" for him.
Mr. Simpson, 36 years old, who won a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics and a silver at the 2012 Games, was "trapped under a solid section of the yacht, " said Iain Murray, the Cup's regatta director.
In men's BMX cycling, Latvia's Maris Strombergs won the gold, defending his Olympics title won at the Beijing Games.
Marion Jones became the first woman to ever win five medals at a single Olympics at the 2000 Sydney Games.
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The beautiful, funny and riveting film is about honour, integrity and ambition -- the drama that underlies all the Games and makes the Olympics (and the film) worth watching again and again.
As it turned out, it was another contest in Athens (in 1906, but without the status of a fully fledged Olympics) that reconfirmed the games as a Greek-inspired, but peripatetic, sports event.
But the U.S. lost three games at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and settled for the bronze as the rest of the world seemed to close the talent gap.
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But every two years they gather for the small-states games where, unlike the Olympics, medals are plentiful and within reach.
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In a sign that the IOC is trying to adapt to the financial challenges media companies are facing, the committee has said it is willing to entertain bids for the next four Olympics, including the 2018 and 2020 games, whose locations have yet to be determined.
Full bore events are staged at the Commonwealth Games, but not at the Olympics.
Gareth Cowin, 25, died in PyeongChang whilst representing the island at the Special Olympics World Winter Games.
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