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[00:00.16]Olympic athletes, high-level officials and other people
[00:04.24]have been arriving in Rio de Janeiro
[00:07.12]for the opening of the 2016 summer games.
[00:11.28]The opening ceremony is Friday night, local time,
[00:16.28]but some events already started.
[00:19.76]The first medals will be awarded on Saturday.
[00:24.04]The Rio Olympics officially begin Friday,
[00:28.60]when the Olympic torch is carried into Maracana Stadium to light the Olympic cauldron.
[00:35.24]The cauldron will stay lit for over two weeks until the closing ceremony on August 21.
[00:43.92]During that period, 301 gold medals will be awarded to the winners.
[00:50.76]At the last summer Olympics, the 2012 London games,
[00:56.12]the United States won 46 gold medals and 104 medals in all.
[01:03.56]China was second, with 38 gold medals and a total of 88.
[01:10.12]Britain finished in third place, with Russia in fourth.
[01:15.48]One major question this year is:
[01:18.80]How many medals will Russia win at the Rio games?
[01:23.33]Just before the Olympics started,
[01:26.64]the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
[01:29.16]considered banning every member of Russia's team because of a doping scandal.
[01:35.28]Investigators for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
[01:40.16]found evidence of Russian athletes
[01:42.88]using unapproved substances at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
[01:49.48]And the agency accused the Russian government of being involved and covering up the activity.
[01:57.64]But in the end, the IOC decided not to ban
[02:02.12]all 387 Russian qualifiers for the Rio games.
[02:07.44]Many Russian athletes will have a chance to compete.
[02:12.40]But most of the country's track and field athletes
[02:16.16]were banned by the International Association of Athletics Federation.
[02:22.76]At a meeting in Rio this week,
[02:25.36]WADA and the IOC criticized each other.
[02:30.08]WADA officials said the IOC should have banned all the Russian Olympians.
[02:37.00]The IOC said WADA should have acted faster on the allegations of Russian cheating.
[02:44.60]More than 10,000 men and women from over 200 nations
[02:49.68]will compete at Rio de Janeiro.
[02:52.76]The first medals, in men's cycling and women's shooting,
[02:57.80]will be awarded on Saturday.
[03:00.80]Chris Froome, who won the Tour de France last month, will be representing Britain.
[03:06.96]American swimmer Michael Phelps has won the most Olympic medals ever.
[03:12.76]He has 22 medals, including 18 golds.
[03:17.68]He will carry the flag of the United States at the opening ceremony on Friday.
[03:24.80]Aside from the question of which country will win the most medals,
[03:29.16]some people are worried about the health of the competitors.
[03:33.68]Athletes are being careful about the time they spend out of doors
[03:39.48]because of concerns about the Zika virus.
[03:43.60]Zika spreads when mosquitos bite human skin.
[03:48.56]The virus is linked to microcephaly,
[03:51.40]a birth defect in which a baby's head is smaller
[03:54.88]than the heads of other children of the same age and sex.
[04:00.12]Olympic organizers say they are not overly concerned about Zika
[04:05.32]since the games take place during Rio de Janeiro's winter.
[04:10.96]Athletes competing in water events, like open-water swimming,
[04:15.56]rowing and sailing are concerned about polluted water.
[04:21.24]The Associated Press reports that those athletes run a high risk of getting sick.
[04:28.33]Water at some of the competition areas is polluted by untreated waste water.
[04:35.20]It contains bacteria and viruses carried by human waste.
[04:41.22]While some athletes will wear gloves or other protection,
[04:46.24]it will be hard for the open-water swimmers
[04:49.44]to keep water from getting into their mouths.
[04:53.64]Yet Olympic organizers say athletes will not get sick.
[04:59.16]April Ross is an American beach volleyball player.
[05:03.84]She is excited about the chance to compete
[05:07.04]on the famous Copacabana beach.
[05:09.88]"I think it's awesome to be playing on an actual beach," Ross said.
[05:15.68]But medical experts have warned
[05:18.96]that even the sand from coastal areas carries viruses.
[05:24.43]Ross is one of 292 women on the U.S. Olympic team.
[05:30.64]The number of women on Team USA (292) is greater than the number of men (263).
[05:36.72]Some of the strongest and most successful Americans at the games may be women.
[05:43.40]Swimmer Katie Ledecky is a world record holder in two Olympic events
[05:49.96]and won the 800-meter freestyle event in London.
[05:54.02]The USA women's soccer team has won three gold medals in the past three summer Olympics.
[06:02.80]The women's basketball team is trying for its sixth straight gold medal.
[06:09.08]Women will also be part of the first-ever refugee Olympic team.
[06:14.96]Ten athletes from countries like South Sudan, Syria,
[06:19.60]Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia will compete under the Olympic flag.
[06:26.40]Four of them are women, including Yusra Mardini,
[06:30.76]a Syrian refugee now living in Germany.
[06:34.68]She and her sister swam across the Aegean Sea
[06:39.12]when the motor on their boat failed late last year.
[06:42.12]She and the other refugees were rescued
[06:45.48]and taken to a Greek island, and settled in Germany last year.
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