Brazil is hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympic Games in 2016.
The biggest coup would be if Mr Obama helps Chicago win the Olympic games in 2016, which would give the city a star turn on the world stage.
Over the next four years the Brazilian city will be a global hub of sport as it hosts the soccer World Cup in two years and the Olympic Games in 2016.
Rio de Janeiro also will stage many of the key matches when Brazil hosts the World Cup next year, and it will be the host city for the Olympic Games in 2016.
Nicklaus also believes golf's becoming an Olympic event at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in 2016 will give the game a boost, especially in countries like China and Brazil that are relatively new to the sport.
It reckons that over the next 15 years most of the top ten cities will display below-average growth in population and output (one exception will be Rio de Janeiro, boosted by investment in offshore oil as well as the Olympic games of 2016).
The contracts follow a major initiative last summer during the London 2012 Olympic Games to try to win contracts for UK firms around the 2016 Olympic Games and 2018 football World Cup in Russia.
And as mayor, he will be the host of the Olympic Summer Games in 2016.
The 2016 Olympic Games will include the seven-man game as an official Olympic sport.
Two UK architecture firms have won contracts to assist with venue designs for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
It has decided not to bid for the security contract for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Next week, top television executives will fly to Switzerland to submit their bids for the right to broadcast the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games.
Escadaria Selaron has been designated a city landmark and featured in the video promoting Rio de Janeiro's successful bid for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Kevin Garside, of British newspaper The Independent, suggests the reintroduction of golf at the 2016 Olympic Games means anchored putting will be banned, despite U.S. resistance.
The Rugby World Cup is being held in England in 2015, and the following year the sevens shortened version of the game makes its introduction in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
That's since changed, with the pacification of dozens of Rio's "favela" hillside slums, the discovery of offshore oil deposits that have flooded the city with petrodollars and Rio's role as host for the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
Some clubs in England and France have questioned the rate of financial growth, McGrath says, and are encouraged by the potential for rugby's global expansion, particularly following the inclusion of rugby sevens, a shorter form of the classic game, in the 2016 Olympic Games.
Their senior team has a bright future ahead of it based upon the players on display at the London Olympics, and barring any huge surprises over the next four years they will have to be one of the favorites when their nation hosts the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic games.
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With the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games to be staged in Brazil , the South American's growing sporting prominence has been recognized with the addition of a second Brazilian tournament in Florianopolis for 2014, adding to an event which will debut in Rio de Janiero this year.
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Further ahead: the 2016 summer Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.
The controversy unfolds at a delicate time for Spain: Madrid is among the finalist to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, and Spanish athletes and fans have been criticized and sanctioned for actions deemed racially insensitive.
Rio has received London's top tips on how to run a smooth transport system ahead of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Considering that Brazil will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and recalling the US experience in organizing events of this magnitude and the interest of the US Government in sharing this experience with Brazil, the leaders welcomed the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Major Global Sporting Events, aimed at intensifying bilateral cooperation, particularly on infrastructure, safety, and security.
The deal would run until April 2016, covering the London 2012 Olympic Games.
That was where the executive board of the International Olympic Committee voted to return golf to the Games in 2016 after a 112-year absence.
Panasonic has also renewed its partnership with the International Olympic Committee for an additional eight years through the 2016 Summer Games.
Its commercial focus is looking ahead two years to the Winter Games in the Russian city of Sochi and the Youth Olympic Games in China's Nanjing and two years after that to the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Isam Mohamed El-Hajj Hassan, known to his fans as Karabino, returns from Japan with two Olympic medals in his sights -- hopefully as early as the Rio De Janeiro games in 2016.
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