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Brazil at the Olympics

• Brazil first competed at the Olympic Games in 1920.

• The Brazilian government couldn't afford to send its 69 athletes to the 1932 Los Angeles Games, so they herded them onto a ship with 50,000 sacks of Brazilian coffee, hoping to sell the beans to various ports of call on the way to California.

• In 2016, the Brazillian capital Rio will become the first South American city to host the Olympic Games.

Related Pages

• list of all countries that have participated at the Olympic Games.
• Rio 2016 Olympic Games
• About Sport in Brazil