The Rio 2016 Candidature Commission will present its proposal to host the 2016 Olympic Games to the Olympic Council of Asia General Assembly on Tuesday. It will be Rio’s second presentation of its bid; the previous one was held in Mexico at a Pan American Sports Organization meeting earlier this month. The Olympic Council of Asia is one of five continental associations recognized by the International Olympic Committee.

The event is being held in the midst of the First Asian Beach Games, which will host 3,000 athletes from 45 countries competing in 14 disciplines. The event runs October 18-26.

Attending the opening ceremony of the beach games on Saturday were the president of the Rio 2016 Commission, Carlos Arthur Nuzman; the secretary general of the Commission, Carlos Roberto Osorio; and the Commission’s director of international relations, Mario Cilenti. President of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), Xeique Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, of Kuwait, said during the opening ceremony that “the OCA presents the First Asian Beach Games not just as a sports event, but as an opportunity for Asian youth to compete for a global audience.”

The Rio 2016 Commission, which was well-received in Mexico earlier this month, is being accompanied on this trip to Bali by one of Brazil’s greatest names in sports: Adriana Behar, two-time Olympic medalist, seven-time champion of the FIVB World Tour and a world icon of beach volleyball.
Nuzman stressed the importance of Rio 2016’s participation in Asia. “We came to Bali to exchange experiences and to show our plans to the Asian continent. Rio de Janeiro is a city with a long tradition of beach sports, and we feel at home in Bali.”