Investing in an Olympic agenda: from Rio to Tokyo and beyond by Eduardo Russo, Ariane Roder Figueira, Leonardo Jose Mataruna-Dos-Santos

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Rio 2016 Olympics: analysis of the tourist perception of quality using TOURQUAL by Tiago Savi Mondo, Osiris Ricardo Bezerra Marques, José Manoel Gonçalves Gândara

“…The Rio 2016 Summer Olympics was a mega-event that changed the Brazilian tourism structure, particularly in the city of Rio de Janeiro. …”
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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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L’échéance des Jeux Olympiques de 2016 et les stratégies de restructuration du transport métropolitain de Rio de Janeiro by Antoine Beyer

“…Reorganizing public transport in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro ahead of the Summer Olympic Games 2016.Public transportation played a decisive role in Rio de Janeiro’s bid to host the Summer Olympic Games 2016. …”
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Visual Essay: The City Hides the Process. Popular Protest in ‘Vila Autodromo’, Rio de Janeiro by Claudia Villegas, Khalil Esteban, Beatriz Nussbaumer

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Grafites do amor, da paz e da alegria na cidade Olímpica: interfaces entre política, arte e religião no Rio 2016 by Christina Vital da Cunha

“…The objective of this article is to analyze the meanings attributed by different actors to graffiti, stencils and murals that form a motivational landscape in Rio de Janeiro in the context of the 2016 Olympics. …”
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Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020 by Mateus de Almeida Prado Sampaio, Jose Raimundo Sousa Ribeiro Junior

“…We analyse the performance of each country (delegations) in terms of 1) the overall score obtained; 2) comparison with its previous performance (Rio 2016); 3) relationship between the number of medals and the number of athletes sent; 4) relationship between the number of medals and the total population and 5) relationship between obtaining Olympic points and the respective HDI (Human Development Index).We conclude that access to the greatest material (and immaterial) wealth in dispute, symbolized by the Olympic gold medal, is spatially distributed across the globe in concentrated (Map 1), hermetic (Map 2), competitive (Map 4), unequal (Map 5) and unfair (Map 6) ways.…”
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