Brazilian police step up patrols in Rio de Janeiro for Olympics Games 2016

Rio de Janeiro police are refreshing watches in ranges mainstream with voyagers and close venues that will have Summer Olympic Games events one year from now after a sequence of blade assaults on local people and outsiders. The stabbings started calls for disagree to walks this weekend to request better security. Furthermore, cyclist Jamie Gold was wounded in the early night on Tuesday while cycling close to the Rodrigo de Freitas tidal pond in the most  neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro.

Two young people did the assault, and after that stole the traveler's bicycle. The 57-year-old specialist passed on from his wounds the following day. It was the fourth such cutting at the lake and there have been more than 10 different stabbings amid muggings in central Rio in that time.

The zone is well-known with visitors, not a long way from the world-popular Ipanema shoreline and in the shadows of the Christ the Redeemer statue.  As per insights, the condition of Rio de Janeiro, which incorporates the city of Rio, saw a drop in killings in 2012. Anyhow, murders started rising once more lively 21 percent to 4,939 peoples killed in 2014. 

Jitu Rai and Apurvi Chandela picks up Olympics quota with World Cup bronze

Jitu Rai and Apurvi Chandela have won Olympic quota place for Rio. The focus was on the five share puts on offer on the day three in men's air rifle and two in women games pistol. The Indian shooters, Abhinav Bindra which included five who had contended in the London Olympics, made the finals to have the capacity to stay in the game for the doubtful Olympic quota.

Bindra needed to battle with a moderate begin and a less than exciting complete in a progression of 102.8, 104.0, 104.6, 105.1, 104.9 and 103.2. It was in fact brilliant shooting as Bindra did not shoot a 9, till he had a 9.9 and 9.8 on the last card. In the prior configuration, he would have a score of 598. But the decimal scoring gauged the intrinsic quality of shooting better in placing the eight finalists, from a field of 100 shooters.

The two different Olympians in the conflict, Sanjeev Rajput and Gagan Narang put 25 and 26 individually. Shooting in the MQS segment, Satyendra Singh thought of the best score of 624.8. Milutin Stefanovic of Serbia won the gold and the Olympic standard spot, as he beat the world No.1, the 19-year-old Yang Haoran of China by 0.7 point. The 30-year-old Stefanovic was guaranteed of his entrance in the Rio Olympics, as Serbia has an display that the shooters who win the quantity spot make it to the Summer Olympic Games.  Bronze medallist Anton Rizov of Bulgaria and the fifth put Alexander Schmirl of Austria were granted the other two Summer Olympic quota place in the event.

Enid Sung Targets Rio Olympic Qualifications

Enid Sung can go to the World Championships with the national team later in the year if she finishes in top two at the national level. She can qualify to Rio Olympics for a top finish there. The 20-year-old said she had a shoulder problem last year and she has just recovered from it and if she performs well in the event then she can be there but it depends upon what happens on the day. Sung finished first in the ball, ribbon and clubs events and third in the hoop event at the recent State Championships.

She won the Rhythmic Gymnastics Senior All Around State Champion award due to hard work and the Australian Gymnastics Championships from May 18 to May 30 in Melbourne will see her as top performer. Meriden Rhythmic Gymnastics Center is her training place and she manages between tough training and full time study. She said she is a full time student of Sydney University and so she wants to qualify for the World University Games also.

The rhytmatic gymnast further said although qualification of Olympics and Commonwealth games is big achievement but the World Uni Games qualification will also be a big job. She further explained she trains for four hours in 5 or 6 days per week and she do her own training a couple of days per week. Sung has been performing in gymnastics for about 10 years and has already represented Australia successfully at the Youth Olympic Festival in 2009 and was contender at the World Championships in 2010. 

Gymnastics Organization Wants to Change Qualification Rules of Olympic

The International Federation of Gymnastics wants the participation of more countries to compete and promote second layer of tournaments. The body wants to change the Olympic qualification rules to meet this objective. The FIG will vote to reduce the size of team of artisitic gymnastics from 5 to 4 at the Tokyo Olympics. There were six members of a team at the 2008 Olympics. The governing body said 12 spaces for men and 12 for women would become available with this proposal complying with quota of 98 of IOC for each gender.

Event specialists of advanced countries could fill those spaces which could result in two more places and thus smaller nations were unable to qualify for the team. The 2012 London games witnessed 58 nations participating and the International Olympic Committee wants the participation of even more under its universality policy. FIG said that continental events and its World Cup series would be included under the proposed rules and smaller championships will thrive with this change.

FIG added results of several competitions will determine the qualification of gymnasts under the new system. World championships in the year before the Olympics and the subsequent test event in the host country are the stages for team qualification currently. Winning world medals and the rankings at the test event can help individual gymnasts to qualify.