Mega-events, legacies and impacts: notes on 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics by Fabricio Leal de Oliveira, Carlos B. Vainer, Gilmar Mascarenhas, Glauco Bienenstein, Einar Braathen

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Security for Show? The Militarisation of Public Space in Light of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games by Veronica F. Azzi

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The role of the audit in the prevention and detection of corruption events: Evidence of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games by Lorena Furtado, Tatiane Antonovz, Blenio Peixe, Michael Correa

Subjects: “…audit in prevention, detection of evidence of corruption, rio 2016 olympics…”
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International workshop on insecticide resistance in vectors of arboviruses, December 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Vincent Corbel, Dina M. Fonseca, David Weetman, João Pinto, Nicole L. Achee, Fabrice Chandre, Mamadou B. Coulibaly, Isabelle Dusfour, John Grieco, Waraporn Juntarajumnong, Audrey Lenhart, Ademir J. Martins, Catherine Moyes, Lee Ching Ng, Kamaraju Raghavendra, Hassan Vatandoost, John Vontas, Pie Muller, Shinji Kasai, Florence Fouque, Raman Velayudhan, Claire Durot, Jean-Philippe David

“…This report summarizes the main outputs of the first international workshop on Insecticide resistance in vectors of arboviruses held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5–8 December 2016. The primary aims of this workshop were to identify strategies for the development and implementation of standardized insecticide resistance management, also to allow comparisons across nations and across time, and to define research priorities for control of vectors of arboviruses. …”
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The Zika virus crisis during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games: a media cover analysis by Diego R. Toubes, Jaime Álvarez de la Torre, Arthur Filipe de Araújo

“…In this context, this paper analyses the Zika virus epidemic in Brazil, a past crisis that gained increased media attention during the months leading up to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, to identify the cognitive and affective components of published information. …”
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International workshop on insecticide resistance in vectors of arboviruses, December 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. by Corbel, V, Fonseca, D, Weetman, D, Pinto, J, Achee, N, Chandre, F, Coulibaly, M, Dusfour, I, Grieco, J, Juntarajumnong, W, Lenhart, A, Martins, A, Moyes, C, Ng, L, Raghavendra, K, Vatandoost, H, Vontas, J, Muller, P, Kasai, S, Fouque, F, Velayudhan, R, Durot, C, David, J

“…This report summarizes the main outputs of the first international workshop on Insecticide resistance in vectors of arboviruses held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5-8 December 2016. The primary aims of this workshop were to identify strategies for the development and implementation of standardized insecticide resistance management, also to allow comparisons across nations and across time, and to define research priorities for control of vectors of arboviruses. …”

Erratum to: International workshop on insecticide resistance in vectors of arboviruses, December 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Vincent Corbel, Dina M. Fonseca, David Weetman, João Pinto, Nicole L. Achee, Fabrice Chandre, Mamadou B. Coulibaly, Isabelle Dusfour, John Grieco, Waraporn Juntarajumnong, Audrey Lenhart, Ademir J. Martins, Catherine Moyes, Lee Ching Ng, Kamaraju Raghavendra, Hassan Vatandoost, John Vontas, Pie Muller, Shinji Kasai, Florence Fouque, Raman Velayudhan, Claire Durot, Jean-Philippe David

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Zika Virus Screening among Spanish Team Members After 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Olympic Games by Natalia Rodriguez-Valero, Alberto M. Borobia, Mar Lago, Maria Paz Sánchez-Seco, Fernando de Ory, Ana Vázquez, Jose Luis Pérez-Arellano, Cristina Carranza Rodríguez, Miguel J. Martínez, Alicia Capón, Elias Cañas, Joaquin Salas-Coronas, Arkaitz Azcune Galparsoro, Jose Muñoz

“…We evaluated the risk for the Spanish Olympic Team acquiring Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during 2016. We recruited 117 team members, and all tested negative for Zika virus. …”
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A pre-post evaluation of and public support for smoke-free policies at the 2016 Rio Olympics: findings from the ITC Brazil survey, 2012 - 17 by Cristina Perez, Janet Chung-Hall, Lorraine Craig, Mi Yan, Tania Cavalcante, Felipe Mendes, André Szklo, Geoffrey T. Fong

“…This study evaluated the effectiveness of smoke-free policies at the 2016 Rio Olympics, which were supported by Brazil's 2014 comprehensive smoke-free law, and measured public support for smoke-free Olympic venues. …”
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Visión, a través de los medios de comunicación escritos, del impacto económico de los Juegos Olímpicos en la crisis mundial (2010-2015): Londres 2012 y Río de Janeiro 2016 como referencias = Vision through the media writing, the economic impact of the Olympic Games in the world crisis (2010-2015): London 2012 and 2016 Rio de Janeiro as references by José P. Sanchís Ramírez

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Entrevista com Ana de Hollanda by Renata Rocha, Gleise Oliveira, Alexandre Barbalho

“…Depoimento cedido em 18 de maio de 2016, Rio de Janeiro - RJ.…”
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Evaluation of spine MRIs in athletes participating in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympic Games by Michael S Wasserman, Ali Guermazi, Mohamed Jarraya, Lars Engbretsen, Mohamad AbdelKader, Frank W Roemer, Daichi Hayashi, Michel D Crema, Asim Z Mian

“…Our aim is to analyse the epidemiology of spinal pathologies detected on MRI in athletes participating in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics.Methods In this retrospective study, all spine MRIs performed during the 2016 Rio Games were analysed. …”
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We Must Be Dreaming by David Bert Joris Dhert

“…Along three years of navigating through the daily lives of three Brazilians - one of Indigenous, one of African and one of European descent - the film WE MUST BE DREAMING explores how the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games have affected the lives of the people of Rio de Janeiro and to what degree the two biggest sport events of the planet have brought the dreams and opportunities they promise.…”
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Representation of gender in sports news from a sociological perspective by Sedigheh Rezaeepasha, Farideh Sharififar, Mahmoud Sharepour, Ali Asghar Kia

“…The purpose of writing this article is to represent gender in the sports news of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2016 Rio and to analyze it from a sociological perspective. …”
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Negotiating Multiple Identities of Brazilian Paralympians by Lyusyena Kirakosyan

“…In this article, I draw on the personal narratives of 41 Brazilian Paralympic athletes who competed in the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games to explore their multiple identities shaped within and outside sport and how they negotiated those self-representations. …”
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El deporte y la idolatría: la caminata heroica de la judoca brasileña Rafaela Silva en los Juegos Olímpicos Londres 2012 e Río 2016 by Adriana Guimarães Moreira

“…Many journalistic examples were searched with nominal athlete’s citations published in sports editions in 2012 (London Games) and in 2016 (Rio Games). Based on hero theory concept, it has been verified that the athlete was presented as a character that goes through the stages of the journey proposed by Campbell (1995). …”
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Rio de Janeiro residents’ perceptions of the 2016 Olympics in the pre-games period by Deborah Moraes Zouain, Paola Lohmann, Kaarina Virkki, Douglas Michele Turco, Gabriela De Laurentis Cardoso

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IS THERE AN IDEAL AGE TO WIN AN OLYMPIC MEDAL? by Ildikó Balatoni, Ágnes Jenes, Nikolett Kosztin, László Csernoch

“…The age of Olympic medallists between 1960 Rome and 2016 Rio were collected using an online database. …”
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Newspaper Coverage of Paralympic Athletes: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis by Habibah Ismail, Selina Khoo, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Jadeera Phaik Geok Cheong, Rizal Razman

“…This study examines representations of athletes with impairments who competed at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. Discourse analysis from a linguistic perspective was employed to investigate gendered descriptions of disabled persons and the emotional expressions of Paralympic athletes, as printed in verbal and visual texts found in Malaysian English Language newspapers. …”
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Understanding sports fans' motivations by text mining #ChongWeiOurHero by Goh, Sherwin Si Win

“…Lee Chong Wei’s loss in the 2016 Rio Olympics badminton men’s singles final was the setting for this study. …”
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