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R I O 2 0 1 6 Athletics at the 2016 2 7 took place at the João

Havelange Olympic Stadium in Rio de

Janeiro from August 12 to 21, 2016. The

running and marathon competitions were held on two urban circuits prepared for the

occasion, with the Sambadrome as the

starting and finishing point of the two

marathon tests and a circuit in the Pontal area for the march. In the score the victory

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The International Boxing Association (AIBA) allowed the participation of professional boxers for these Games, arranging an additional qualifying tournament for professionals, the APB / WSB Olympic Qualifying Tournament, held in Venezuela between July 3 and 8, 2016 Italian Carmine Tommasone, who competed in the 60kg category, became the first professional boxer to participate in the Olympics and was awarded the prize for hitting his opponents.

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The participation of professionals was controversial, some national federations and sports connoisseurs believed that the difference in strength and experience between amateur and professional boxers would favor the score of the latter. For their part, supporters of this measure argued that professionals had the same right to compete in the Olympic tournament and that their participation would increase the level of the competition.In addition, doctors and boxing professionals also criticized the IOC decision to remove the protective helmet in male combat. MAS ON POWEL EXPLAINS WHY JAMAICAN SPRINTERS ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD

Our sport reporter Mel Hunter finds the Jamaican results very surprising because . . . She has interviewed Mason Powel coach of the Jamaican team. Here's what we learnt.

1.Why did running become a nation sport in Jamaica? Professional coaches were brought the schools.

2 . Which are the two reasons of Jamaican success ? The climate.

3 . Compared to Jamaican, East African runners are. . . Less successful .

4. What makes Jamaican and East African good runners ? They have good genes.

5 . Jamai can are good sprinters due to. . . Their genes and the influence of their enviroment.

PAGE 15 FINANCE REVIEW INTERVIEW

WE INTERVIEW THE SPANISH SWIMMERS WHO WON A BRONZE MEDAL IN RIO 2016

MIREIA BELMONTE - A TRUE How long have you been ? WINNER I' ve swum since I was 4 years old.

Why did you start? Yesterday we interviewed medal winner Mireia Belmonte, who won the gold in swimming. This is what she told us. I started swimming with a prescription to correct a back defect. When asked how long she had been swimming, she said she had been swimming since she was 4 years old. Where did you usually swim? Then we ask why it started and where. She said she When my parents took me to my town's started swimming with a prescription to correct a back indoor pool to start taking classes. defect, and soon afterward swimming became her passion, beginning to stand out in no time. We then asked her how often she trained, and she How often do you train? replied that she generally trained three times a day and Attend classes 3 times a week. every day before the Olympics. How do you feel after winning the gold? Finally, we asked her how she felt after winning the gold I felt that I had fulfilled my dream and that and what did she was with the medal. She said that she felt incredible and that she had fulfilled her dream, she everything was incredible. said that she left the medal at her parents' house since her dream of being a professional swimmer began there. What did you do with the medal? I left her at my parents' house because that's where my dream started. MIREIA BELMONTE

Her birthday is on November in 1990. She was born in Badalona, . She is 29 years old. The sport she was practices is swimming. Is allergic to chlorine and asthmatic. She studied business. She started at 4 years old. She started competing when she was 13 years old, in 2003. She has competed in three Olympics; , and Rio. She has got 4 medals. Today she continues to compete and train for it.

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Many people love swimming as well as Mireia Belmonte. She is a great swimmer who, from a very young age, worked hard to compete and earn a living with her hobby. She always excelled in swimming due to her hard work.

Mireia was born in 1990 in Badalona, Spain. He started at 4 years old, even though he was allergic to chlorine and he was asthmatic, but he was recommended because of his scoliosis. She started competing when she was 13 years old, in 2003. She obtained a scholarship from the Catalan Swimming Federation to train at the High Performance Center.

In 2006 she was proclaimed Junior World Champion in 400m freestyle and 400m styles, also achieving the European Junior Championship in 200m freestyle and 400m styles. Today she is 29 years old, and she has obtained 4 medals in Olympic Games; two in Rio: one gold and one bronze and two silver in London. She has participated in the Olympic Games in Beijin, London and Rio.

Nowadays Mireia belmonte continues training to compete, she does this 9 hours a day, 7 days a week. She still has no plans to retire as she has the sufficient capacity to maintain the rhythm of life that she has led so far.