Rio de Janeiro is one of the four finalists cities to host the 2016 Olympic Games, the other cities are Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid. Fortunately this week I wrote an interesting article about Rio de Janeiro plus I added a video about the wonderful city.

The last step to choose the host city for the games is when the panel of IOC (International Olympic Committee) experts will visit the cities to know the proposed sites and talk with the government leader about all the organization of the event.

Because Rio de Janeiro hosted the 2007 Pan American Games the government thinks it will be easier to win the nomination to host the Olympic Games. If that happen Rio de Janeiro would be the first South American city to get the Olympic Games since the game was created. The first of the IOC’s Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece.

The final choice for will be made by secret ballot at the IOC Session in Copenhagen on October 2, 2009.